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The name of this moth furnishes me with an argument 

 against those who advocate the adoption of an exclusively 

 Latin nomenclature by even persons who have never been 

 put to the trouble of learning any other than their mother 

 tongue. Staunch churchman as I hereditarily am, I ex- 

 ercise the widest tolerance towards those who are not so 

 happy as to be within the pale of the church. You may 

 imagine therefore with what feelings I one day last year 

 received the intelligence that a brother Entomologist had 

 recently captured and killed some two hundred Presbyteri- 

 ans. It was, in fact, made a matter of boast. I expressed 

 the thought that it might yet prove not to have been the 

 case; but my informant stood me out that the deed had 

 been done. I could, as a magistrate for the East-Riding, 

 have issued a warrant for the immediate apprehension of 

 this second Claverhouse, but I concluded that, after all, 

 his own reflections would be a sufficient punishment; so 

 I left him to them and went on my way, without further 

 thought of "Bonny Dundee" or of the retributive justice 

 which deeds like his might merit and demand. 



EPIONE APICIARIA. 

 Plate XVII. Figure 3. 



THIS insect measures from a little over an inch to 

 nearly one and a quarter in width. 



Male: fore wings orange; the first line, which is black- 

 ish, much bent in an angle, the second line, which is 

 rather waved, runs from the outer corner slantwise to near 

 the middle of the lower margin, followed by a broad pur- 

 ple-red border, more or less intermixed with the ground 

 colour of the wing, the central spot black. Hind wings 



