THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 58.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1857. [Price Id. 
Argynnis Lathonia (Queen of Spain Fritillary). 
See p. 43. 
EUROPEAN LEPIDOPTERA. 
A correspondent lately wrote to us 
as follows : — 
“ I collect British Lepidoptera and 
the Diurnal Lepidoptera (or, as I 
suppose I should term them, Rho- 
palocera) of Europe. I wish you 
could give incipients like me a word 
of advice how to proceed in forming 
such a collection, as regards the 
Continental species. Hitherto I have 
purchased, hut I confess to having 
an antipathy to this mode of procuring 
specimens.” 
We believe there are many ento- 
mologists, both in France and Ger- 
many, who would gladly exchange 
European butterflies for some of those 
moths, which, though not uncommon 
here, are of rare occurrence on the 
Continent. The great complaint we 
always find across the Channel is that 
they cannot obtain the British species 
for love or money, as we keep all we 
catch for ourselves, and have no notion 
of exchanging for European species 
which do not occur here. 
It is certainly something novel to 
hear that Anglo-Saxons are exclusive 
and unwilling to trade, content to 
keep themselves to themselves, but is 
there not too much truth in this re- 
proach as applied to entomologists ? 
An Italian collector can exchange with 
a Swedish or Russian collector, to the 
mutual satisfaction of all parties, but 
if he makes overtures to an English- 
man — to what avail? 
Latterly we have found that the old 
English exclusiveness was breaking 
down, and we believe that the com- 
munication from M. Fologne, of Brus- 
sels, which appeared in the ‘ Sub- 
stitute,’ led to his having numerous 
replies from English entomologists. 
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