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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
I said before, people may be willing to 
give up their time, and not look for any 
profit, but to be actually money out of 
pocket is more than they can manage. 
— Rev. P. H. Newnham, Guildford; 
Nov. 27. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — One or two articles have ap- 
peared lately in the ‘ Intelligencer’ on 
the need of a guide to the proper pro- 
nunciation of entomological words. If 
you think that the need is general enough 
to make it worth the trouble of preparing 
a book, or rather pamphlet, on the sub- 
ject, I am willing to do so. My idea is 
that the best way of doing it would be, 
first to print the name with the quantities 
marked, and then to subjoin a short 
account of the reason of the name being 
given, so that the name might, in many 
cases, cease to be a mere empty sound, 
only kept in the mind by a pure effort of 
memory. 
Will you, then, kindly favour me with 
your opinion on this point? If your 
opinion is favourable, perhaps you will 
mention my intention in the next ‘ Intel- 
ligencer,’ so as to prevent any other 
person wasting his time by doing work 
already done. I think I could finish the 
Lepidoptera by the end of January, at 
the latest. — Rev. Thomas George 
Bonney, 3, Great College Street, West- 
minster, S.W.; Nov. 30. 
Selfishness and Discontent. — 
“ How many there are who feel that 
time is not precious to them, because 
they have so much of it before them ; 
that their health will enable them to do 
anything which they wish to do. Their 
looking forward to life is for pleasure 
and not for duty ; and thus whatever 
pleasure does not come, they think it 
so much loss — I had almost said, so 
much injury done them. Whatever they 
have to bear, they bear impatiently and 
almost angrily. And there is no possi- 
bility of satisfying such a spirit; for he 
who lives for himself and his own enjoy- 
ment, even if great troubles do not come 
to him, is sure to make much of little 
ones. There is no hardship so trifling, 
no privation so slight, no exertion so 
small, which will not seem burdensome 
and irksome to the temper which looks 
upon life as a thing in which to take its 
ease and be merry.” — Dr. Arnold. 
NOTES ON NOCTILE. 
(From Guenee’s ‘ Ilistoire Naturelle des 
Noctuelites,’ continued from the ‘ Sub- 
stitute.’ ) 
Xanlhia. 
This genus was one of the most hetero- 
genous of the family, and perhaps of all 
the Nocttiae. It was still much confused 
in my Index, but I had reduced it in my 
Essay to its true proportions, except that 
I included Croceago, of which I now 
make a separate genus. 
Though now very homogenous it still 
forms three groups. 
The first group has nothing remarkable 
in its habits ; the larvae feed on trees in 
the ordinary manner, and shelter them- 
selves during the day under the leaves 
or between the bark. The second group 
furnishes us with an instance of peculiar 
and very curious habits; the larvae live 
up to the second or third moult in the 
interior of the catkins of the sallow ; they 
introduce themselves into the axis, and 
excavate there a little gallery, which con- 
tains them as long as they are not above 
a line in diameter. A catkin thus at- 
tacked in its vital part soon withers, and 
adheres so little to the tree that the least 
shake is sufficient to make it fall. The 
collectors of lan a- who know this pecu- 
