THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 69.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1858. [Price Id. 
BANG! 
Had a bomb-shell exploded in the 
collection of Senator Von Heyden, we 
doubt whether it would have created a 
greater sensation amongst the Micro- 
Lepidopterists of Europe than the in- 
telligence contained in our last num- 
ber, that an American Lithocolletis had 
been bred by an American entomo- 
logist. 
The notion has been so generally 
assumed that the entomologists of 
Europe were themselves to issue forth 
and ransack every corner of the globe, 
that few were prepared to find that 
the sons of North America were suffi- 
ciently advanced to spare the Euro- 
peans the trouble of a transatlantic 
journey, for the purpose of enlightening 
the American public on the produc- 
tions of their own “ woods and forests 
and if some had thought that the 
American entomologists might catch 
the Diurnal Lepidoptera, — the Bom- 
byces , the Noctuce and the Geometry , — 
yet they never expected them to pene- 
trate beyond the Pyralida ; the dull- 
ness of the Tortrices was thought an 
inevitable stumbling-block, and the 
minuteness of the Tinctc was thought 
to secure them from the scrutiny of 
any but European eyes. 
The genus that has revolutionised 
the Micro-Lepidopterology of Europe 
has now continued its victorious career 
across the Atlantic, and a Lithocol- 
letis has been bred, pinned and set 
in Pennsylvania. May its onward 
career yet continue, may it penetrate 
the West India Islands, Brazil, Austra- 
lia, New Zealand and China; the 
ease of collection, the beauty of 
marking, the peculiarity of habit, all 
mark out this genus as the pio- 
neer of Micro-Lepidopterological inves- 
tigation. 
When Mr. Atkinson landed at Cal- 
cutta, his first entomological prize was 
a new Lithocolletis. The career of 
that genus is yet but beginning. 
We must now certainly expect that 
in a few years North America, with 
its vast variety of oaks and other trees, 
will furnish to Science a series of the 
genus Lithocolletis , at least equal in 
number to our European list. 
But, further, if Dr. Clemens’ insect 
be identical with our Continental Aca- 
ciella, it reveals an identity of species 
on both sides of the Atlautic ; nay, 
more, it reveals that Acacitlla is 
an imported, and not an indigenous, 
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