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THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



CONDUCTED BY 



J. W. DOUGLAS. E. C. EYE, P.Z.S. 



E. McLACHLAN, E.E.S. H. T. STAINTON, F.E.S. 



VOL. XV. 



" I suppose you are an entomologist ? 



" Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the 

 individual entitled to that name. No man can be truly called an entomologist, 

 sir J the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp." — 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes (The Foet at the Breakfast Table). >^ 



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LONDON: 

 JOHN VAN VOOEST, 1, PATEENOSTER EOW. 



1878-9. 



