Mr: Srence’s Monograph of the Genus Choleva, 129 
wittingly reduced it. Fabricius's system has now had a fair trial 
of.upwards of thirty years, and it was at one time universally 
followed on the continent; yet so far is experience from having 
confirmed the assertion of its author, that the Linnean system is 
only calculated to introduce confusion into the science, that the 
very system professing to dissipate that confusion is even now 
fast sinking into oblivion, while the Linnean orders and generic 
characters, with such improvements as reason and analogy sug- 
gest, and as Linné himself would have approved, are reverted to 
by the most acute and learned entomologists of the age. 
- These observations, called for in some measure by the state of 
entomological opinion in this country, will not, 1 trust, be deemed 
an inappropriate introduction to the description I have here at- 
tempted of the Dritish species of the genus Choleva—one of those 
which have been recently pin from the genera established 
By: Linné. | | 
By painii olidini FA species were en dés Mordella, 
ER or Tritoma. But between the years 1796 and 1800 . 
not fewer than four entomologists, Latreille, Illiger, Paykull and 
Frölich, recognised their claims to be ranked under a distinct 
genus; each, from ignorance of the other's intention, selecting 
a different generic name. Of these, that of Latreille, having 
the priority in point of date, has been here adopted. 
It may seem superfluous, perhaps, to attempt a new elucidation 
of a tribe which has engaged the attention of so many eminent 
entomologists; but it will probably be deemed a sufficient apology 
for this apparent presumption, to state, that our British cabinets 
contain at least nine yet undescribed species; and that I have 
attempted in the following arrangement to facilitate the investi- 
gation of the genus, by an attention to sectional and roa cha- 
racters, hitherto unnoticed. 
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