THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 62.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1857. [Price 1 d. 
EUROPEAN LEPIDOPTERA. 
Our last article on this subject has not 
been without effect. On the one hand, 
it has produced us a new foreign sub- 
scriber, who finds he must have the 
‘ Intelligencer ’ forwarded weekly by 
post, and has actually paid us for it 
and the postage (threepence a week)/o?‘ 
a twelvemonth in advance. We wish 
we had more such subscribers ! On 
the other hand, letters are flying back- 
wards and forwards with lists of dupli- 
cates and desiderata between England 
and the Continent in a manner which 
is quite extraordinary. 
But we fancy some of these letters 
would read very queerly if we could 
get hold of them ! One respected cor- 
respondent abroad writes to say “ that 
he cannot attend to applications for 
only six or ten species, as they would 
not be worth the expense of carriage, 
and that a list of those species must 
he sent which are offered in exchange, 
and that it is no use specifying insects 
by the English names, as they are 
totally unknown on the Continent ! ” 
From this we glean that our friend 
has received an application for some 
“ Bath Whites, Queen of Spains and 
Scarce Coppers!” No wonder he feels 
posed; moreover, we cannot help spe- 
culating on the use to which these 
“ Bath Whites,” tkc., are to be put. 
The principle of evil seems far stronger 
and more active than the principle of 
good! While the good man sleeps 
the burglar is active and awake! 
One correspondent writes to inquire 
where he can obtain a list of Euro- 
pean Rhopalocera, and certainly in the 
attempt to bridge over the long-existing 
chasm between this Island and the 
Continent such a Catalogue seems a 
very natural want. We all know how 
largely and extensively the Catalogue 
of European Coleoptera published by 
the Entomological Society of Stettin 
is used by the Coleopterists of this 
country, and though no doubt Coleo- 
pterists often take wider and more 
comprehensive views than Lepidopterists 
generally do, we fancy a good Cata- 
logue of European Lepidoptera would 
not be a useless publication ; perhaps 
the Stettin Society, or perhaps even 
the Entomological Society of France, 
may take it in hand ; but, in the 
latter case, we hope that care will be 
taken to prevent the usual mass of 
typographical errors which appear in 
the publications of that Soci6tL 
No doubt the result of an extensive 
importation will be to open the eyes 
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