256 Dr. AFzELius’s Obfervations on the Genus Paufus. 
of either of thofe countries, or of both, or of neither; in one word, 
that its babitat was not known to him; and therefore he very pru- 
dently avoided affigning to it any.—This being the cafe, it is quite 
unaccountable how Fuefsly, Gmelin, Herbft and Fuefsly’s tranfla- 
tors could do it; without fuppofing a mifreprefentation of Linné’s 
text, as Iam certain they knew nothing of the infect, but what they 
had learned from his differtation. 
Fuefsly tells us, “* it was found amongft a number of other infects 
which the celebrated Dr. Fothergill of London had gathered in 
North America.” But neither was Dr. Fothergill ever in America, 
nor is this infect a native of that country, as far at leaft as we yet 
know. This double blunder has neverthelefs been faithfully tran- 
{cribed by Herbft; but Gmelin has fatisfied himfelf with only the 
wrong habitat. Fuefsly’s tranflators have made two alterations in 
his text; the one equally erroneous as the original, in faying that 
this fpecies was found in a colleétion of infeéts from South Ame- 
rica and the other; a real amendment, in excluding the ftatement 
of Dr. Fothergill’s having colleéted: it himfelf in America. 
Thunberg has very properly not attempted to fay from whence 
it came; but Fabricius mentions Africa, from the authority of the 
cabinet of the Right Hon. Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. K. B. and I have 
no doubt but that this is its true native country; not however 
the whole continent of Africa, but its weftern coaft, within the 
Tropics, on this fide of the Line; at leaft it is certain that the two 
{pecimens of it now in London, one belonging to Sir J. Banks, and 
the other to Mr. Drury, were both fent from thence by Mr. Smeath- 
man. And it is fomuch the more probable that the infect Linné 
got, likewife came from him; for I underftand he was particularly 
patronized by Dr. Fothergill, and amongft other curiofitics alfo fent 
him many infects from that part of Africa which he vifited. 
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