viii INTRODUCTION. 



throws even Isla's Dondne himself into the back-ground*. 

 Why do they not practise the motto they have adopted, — 

 yvoo^i (TsavTov ? 



The following passage occurs at p. 333 of the Colloquia ! 



' Ent. — I am firmly persuaded, from what I see of the 

 * working members of its Council, that the Entomological 

 ' Society will retard, not advance, entomology.' 



Very civil ! However, spectertmr agendo ! 



As to the hope (p. 332) that 'the Entomological Society 

 ' would have been the means of uniting entomologists into 

 'one body, and called forth kindlier feelings among us', we 

 are not conscious of its having failed in that desirable object, 

 nor do we know of any unkindly feelings connected with the 

 Society, excej)t those too palpably entertained by the con- 

 ductors of the Entomological Magazine. 



And why do they entertain them ? We leave them to an- 

 swer that qviestion as they may, and shall merely state the 

 fact, that their ivish to jniblish the Memoirs read before the 

 Entomological Society, iti their oivn journal, was not ac- 

 ceded to by the Council. 



We have now ended our unpleasant task, and shall not 

 henceforth think it necessary to bestow any further notice on 

 the Entomological Magazine, — whether it flatter or abuse, 

 praise or condemn us. 



* ' Lord! Lord! it was a very Gabilon ! (Babylon). More than one full 

 ' hour were we at it, hand to hand ; and to every word I said, he produced, 

 ' direct!}', such heaps of proofs and quotations, all in Lathi, that it seemed for 

 ' all the world as if he carried them in the breast-pocket of his large cloak.' 

 — History of Friar Gerund de (Jampazas, vol. i. p. 172 : London, 1772, 



