THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST* 
“ ENIGMA QUIDQUID AGUNT NOSTEI EST FARRAGO LIBELLI.” 
Vol. 2. No. 20.] SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1863. 
NEW LOCALITIES. 
JT Is the reigning ambition of 
most enterprizing beginners to 
make discoveries in their science, 
which will stamp them as something 
more than mere tyros. To the dis- 
covery of new species they especially 
soar, and a most praiseworthy ambi- 
tion this is, but one too often doomed 
to years of disappointment, partly 
owing to the “ beaten track ” method 
pursued by so many of them, and 
still more to the want of method at 
all. If they live in a remote and 
little worked district, they look with 
envy upon their more favoured (?) 
“ brethren of the net and pin,” who 
are enabled to collect constantly in 
woods known to be full of good and 
local species, never dreaming that 
these in their turn are longing for 
the unexplored solitude of a heathy 
and wild mountain side, a desolate 
moor, or lonely fen, a quiet nook by 
the sea, or any place where there 
will be somewhat of the interest of 
uncertainty in their explorations. 
Instead of wishing to be at work 
in localities whose produce is known, 
let them set to work diligently upon 
whatever spot seems likely to be 
[Price 2cZ. 
good in their neighbourhood, (ento- 
mological instinct will be a sufficient 
guide) and they, we feel assured, 
will find it will yield as much to 
them as the best worked wood in 
the “ home counties ” would to any 
one collector, with the additional 
and pleasant advantage, that they 
have the wood to themselves, and 
that they are not taking the same 
set of insects that a score other 
entomologists are taking, and have 
taken regularly for years, that if 
they choose to publish a list, it will 
be of far more interest than a dozen 
lists from a dozen hackneyed loca- 
lities, that they are introducing a 
locality to the world of entomolo- 
gists, establishing facts in the distri- 
bution and localization of species, 
and that they have far more chance 
of taking what they desire — a new 
species. And might not the London 
entomologists, and others whose 
collecting ground is well known and 
generally worked, also take a hint ; 
they will probably soon be off on 
their summer tour, why should not 
they, when they have so good a 
chance, try a new field for their 
delightful labours, and see what the 
wilds of Connemara will produce, 
