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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
a long pole out of the water with some- 
thing adhering to its extremity. We soon 
found that they were taking advantage of 
the glassy stillness of the water to over- 
look the early walk of the crabs. They 
no sooner saw these Crustaceans on the 
subaqueous sand than they poked them 
behind with their long staves ; the crabs 
turned round to revenge the indignity, 
and, like Russian gens d’armes, seized 
upon the unsuspecting poles. These 
latter were slightly shaken by_the fisher- 
men, as if in pain or terror ; the angry 
creatures clung all the closer, and were 
then rapidly hoisted into the boat. The 
moral we drew at the time, and have since 
maintained, was that neither crab nor 
Christian should ever lose his temper.” 
These extracts, and many such scat- 
tered throughout the volume, will be 
sufficient to prove that the author has 
enlivened the technical generic and spe- 
cific details, as well as the dry list of 
localities, with agreeable matter to a 
considerable extent; and we have only 
to add that, knowing as we well do Mr. 
White’s capability for producing a similar 
volume on the Arachnida and other 
apterous insects, we trust he may be 
induced to undertake the publication of 
a volume on those greatly neglected 
tribes. 
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Do you study Entomology P By the 
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Second Supplemental List of British 
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Notes on Aculeate Hymenoptera. By 
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Notes on British Geodephaga. By J. F. 
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New British Lepidoptera in 1857. By 
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Rare British Lepidoptera captured in 
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On the Caterpillars of the Saw-Flies. 
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