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AAYE: - À Conti i A NAP several new Genera de- 
scribed from his ip By the Rev. William Kirby, M.A. 
FR. and L.S, 
= Read November ^ 1817. 
| po host et apr ae insects occurring in the ento- 
mological cabinets of this country, is rather disgraceful to us: 
and what is more so, we permit foreigners to do that for us which 
we are fully competent to do ourselves. Witness the numbers 
described by Fabricius, Olivier, and others from British col- 
lections. ; 
Tue i nih 
Pudet hze opprobria nobis. — 
Et diei potuisse et non. potuisse refelli.. 
I am not, however, so illiberal as to wish that the entomologists. 
of the continent should be excluded from our cabinets : if we our- 
selves are too idle, or too busy, to give the public some account 
of our entomological treasures, it is for the interest of science that 
they should do it for us. s 
. To remove, in some degree, this opprobrium, I 
offer to the Linnean Society descriptions ofa century of s the non- 
cript insects of 1 my own. cabinet. Should this a tem 
with approbation, I may be induced, perhaps, to dec 
mainder; and I wish tbat my example may stimulate other gen- 
tlemen to do the same with respect to their own collections. 
In my general arrangement I have followed that of my kind 
and 
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