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lower creatures, must surely feel itself in an uncomfortably ano- 

 malous position." The answer is, not at all. Even granting 

 man to be all that is here said of him, it might yet not be the 

 case that the mental processes of lower creatures would be 

 more easily dealt with than his more complex ones ; for though 

 the human abyss were the deeper, yet if you had a line, long 

 and ready, wherewith to plumb it, it might yield its secret more 

 readily than the shallower mystery which you were less happily 

 provided for fathoming. 



Thus it is willing, keen, impartial observation of human 

 nature that lays the foundation of our only hope of ever seeing 

 to the bottom of the anima brutorum. And, other things being 

 equal, the best metaphysician — pace the naturalists and physi- 

 cists — has the best chance of seeing that length first. 



( Concluded. ) 



OUTLINE DESCRIPTIONS OP BEITISH 00LE0PTERA. 



( Continued from p. 226.) 

 By Rev. T. BLACKBURN, B.A. 



8. 



10. 



A moderately el. species. Very finely punc. Pale 

 test. Disc of th. dusky. Sut. and 4 lines on e. 

 (rarely reaching ba. or ap. and gen. interrupted) 

 dusky or b. i$£ 1. B. N - . 



A short globose species. Very finely punc. and spar, 

 sprinkled with large puncs. H. and th. reddish. 

 E. very pale test. ; the sut. and 4 lines on each e. 

 (not reaching ba. or ap., often more or less con- 

 fluent) b. i l / 2 1. B. 



A dist. str. on each e. close to the sut. is obs. near ap. 



This str. runs consp. to ap. Finely pub. and punc. 

 B. Th. paler. Legs, a fasc. near ba., and some 

 marks near mar. and ap., of e. test. The continua- 

 tion on e. of ba. fov. of th. shorter than th. itself. 

 1 1 F 



Very finely punc. B. An. , h. , legs, and 3 fasc. on e. 

 (not reaching sut. ), test. Continuation on e. of ba. 

 fov. of th. much longer than the th. itself. A long 



novemlineatus 



confluens 

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geminus 



parallel species. 



1. E. 8 - w - 



minutisshmts 



II. 



12. 



Very finely pub. and punc. Pit. Disc, of th. and 

 gen. some markings on e. obsc. test. Continuation 

 on e. of ba. fov. of th. much longer than th. itself. 

 Not a parallel species. 5-6ths 1. E. ES 



Narrow, el. species. Less than i/^ 1. 



Not as above ...... 



Spar, and dist. punc. and pub. B. Ba. of an., and 

 2 lines on each e., yellow. 1 1. E. 



nnistriatus 



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granulans 



