330 COLLOQUIA ENTOMOLOGICA. 



Erro, {Taking off the crown and admiring it) — 



Illae continuo saltus sylvasque peragrunt, 

 Purpureosque metunt flores. 



Ent. Your majesty is very condescending. Now, thank 

 the contributors ; speak of the overflow of contributions ; 

 thank the public for the increased sale ; say that the profits of 

 the Magazine will be given to the Hope Assurance Company. 



Erro. — 



Hie Venus indigno nati coucussa dolore, 

 Dictamnum genitrix Craetsea carpit ab Ida, 

 Puberibus caulem foliis et flore comantem 

 Purpureo. 



Ent. Sire, on behalf of my brother entomologists, I beg 

 to thank your majesty for your continued good will, so warmly 

 expressed, and to assure your majesty of our undiminished 

 regard and obedience. 



Erro. It could not be the Dictamnus, after all. See, 

 they begin to droop already. 



Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratra 

 Languescit moriens ; lassove papavera collo 

 Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravatur. 



Ent. Another speech ! that will do, Roey. 



Erro. You have never got me seeds of the Dinmore-hill 

 vetch, Vicia sylvatica. I want it for my garden. 



Ent. Oh ! don't try to gardenize it : it is beautiful in the 

 woods, where its graceful festoons glow with a thousand 

 bunches of bloom, delicately tinted ; but in a garden with 

 prim brick walls, it would fret, pine, droop, dwindle, and die : 

 don't try it. 



Erro. What! why not? it would climb the trellis-work, 

 and I should guide it and train it with Lophospermum and 

 Maurandya, managing them so as to make a blaze of bloom. 



Ent. It would not grow, indeed, Roey ; or, if it did, it 

 would smother the Maurandya, and break down the trellis. 



Erro. The Gladiolus Byzantinus is a very favourite 

 flower of mine. I am sure it is Ovid's Hyacinthus. 



Talia dum vero memorantur Apollinis ore, 

 Ecce cruor qui fusus humi signaverat herbam, 

 Desinet esse cruor : Tyrioque nitentior ostro 

 Flos oritur ; formamque capit quam lilia : si non 



