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THE ADIEU. 



Caput warn fere thoracis latitudine, /<?/«, minus et angustius, nigrum 

 subnitidum, punctatissimum, antice emarginatum, angulis ante 

 oculos prorninulis : mandibulae maris capitis longitudine, curvatae, 

 apice in dentem parvum obtusum producto, denteque magno 

 interne piano difFormi armatae; fern, multo breviores subacutae 

 dente parvo interne obtuso : thorax niger subconvexus, maris major 

 transversus lateribus parallelis, fern, lateribus rotundatis ; punc- 

 tatissimus, disco linea nulla longitudinali impressus : elytra nigra 

 punctatissima, punctis nonnullis in lineas longitudinales dispositis 

 (vix striato-punctatis) maris latitudine thoracis ; fern, thorace lati- 

 oribus, lateribus fere parallelis, apice rotundato : tibiae anticae 

 4-dentat8e. 



Obs. — D. Cancroidi valde affinis at forma elytrorum thoraceque 

 Isevi abunde distinctus. 



Art. XXVIII. — Verses read before the Literary Society of 



Epping. 



" Tenet iusanabile multos cacoethes scribendi." 



The Adieu. 



The anxious mother, when her child 



Its life's short path has trod, 

 'Mid many a tear and accent wild, 



Resigns it to her God : 

 Its little hands, long press'd in her's. 



No more their grasp renew ; 

 Its little breast no longer stirs — 



How woful her a Dieu ! 



Or if the boy desert his home, 



And seek a trackless road 

 To wealth and fame, o'er ocean's foam. 



Still, still she prays to God — 

 To guard him on the weltering wave, 



When farthest from her view, 

 From peril and from death to save — 



How pray'rful her a Dieu ! 



