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HEMIPTERA. 



Additions to the Fauna of Great Britain, and 

 Descriptions of Two New Species. 



By John Scott. 



"What! would you rather see the incessant stir 

 Of insects in the winrows of the hay, 

 And hear the locust and the grasshopper 

 Their melancholy hurdy-gurdies play ?" 



— Longfellow. 



" Count me those only which are good and great." 



— Pope. 



The summer feast is ended. Christmas has come, and with 

 it the P. D. cap in hand, for a donation to the compositor. 

 Of me he begs bugs, and so I suppose his " furniture" does 

 not produce him any which can 



" Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race." 



Bugs ! for a moment I wonder at the idea, and then quietly 

 retire into my own sleeve, and laugh. But wherefore should 

 a compositor not have his little peculiarities in common with 

 ourselves ? This is a joyous season ; everybody wears, or 

 tries to wear, a look of happiness. The skeletons and ghosts 

 have forsaken the houses for a time — except those houses in 

 which they are preserved by Pepper — and Christmas-trees 

 have taken their places. Their long train of attendants, the 

 happy and expectant faces of the joyous children, the darlings 

 which give to life half its pleasures, and rob it of the other 



