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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
If this be the case with any of our 
readers, let us entreat them, in the 
name of entomology, to get rid of 
this feeling with all haste. The 
desponding state boi’ders closely on 
the apathetic, and woe to the collec- 
tion whose owner has fallen into a 
chronic state of indifference. We 
have the same exhortation for you 
as for the most successful entomo- 
logist in the world — “Persevere! ” 
“ But how long,” you may ask, “ am 
I to persevere before I am re- 
warded?” We cannot tell. It 
may be for years, it will not be for 
ever. Perhaps, when least looked 
for, the stroke of luck may come : 
sooner or later it comes to all hard- 
workers, and when it comes, it sel- 
dom comes alone. When the har- 
vest is slack you will begin to reap. 
Persevere, then, through fair and 
stormy weather, through disappoint- 
ments and successes, through hopes 
and fears — Persevere ! for the gaol 
is always before you, and if you gain 
it you have yet a further end to at- 
tain. Persevere ! — for whatever 
your present fortune or your past, 
there awaits you, on the far horizon 
of the future, an ample reward for all 
your trouble, a name among your 
fellow labourers, and — chief of all — 
acquaintance with the wonder of 
Creation’s hidden treasures, a secret 
well-spring of delight, that time 
can neither dry nor circumstances 
pollute. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Are the Smerinthi Double-brooded ? 
— Under this heading an account is 
given in the “Intelligencer,” of 
August 22, 1857, of some ova of S- 
occltatus, that were hatched during 
the first week in June, the larvct. 
