Genre:

Review, Drollery

Subjects:

Natural History, Entomology, Race

    A response to Anon 1833. Punch claims that it knows too much about 'insects and their habitation' and describes, in its own non-technical and droll terms, several common insects with which it has 'formed a practical and by no means agreeable acquaintance'. The spider, for example, is described as a species 'partial to lodging houses; especially to those portions of them which are tenanted by single gentlemen', while the moth is described as 'an insect of Hebrew origin, from its attachment to old clothes'.