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 CORRIGENDA IN PLATES. 



PLATE A. Row 2. No. 5. For MELOLOUTHA, read MELOLONTHA r 



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ROW 3. No. 9. TENELRICOSA, TENEBRICOSA 



PLATE B. Row 3. No. 9. OADEMERA, CEDEMERA 

 PLATE D. Row 3. No. 9. TENELRIO, TENEBRIO 



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band of oolite which cuts transversely right through 

 the country. Not that the Downs rise to any great 

 altitudes, but they have a character that is their own 

 in a sense that the Cotswolds and the Chilterns and 

 all the little elevations of the Midlands do not possess. 

 What strikes one most about the Chalk Downs of 

 Southern England is their immense spaciousness, 

 the long, long lines of their horizons, the interminable 

 emptiness of their placid slopes. In Cumberland 

 and Carnarvonshire one is conscious of fierce sub- 

 terranean forces, masses of volcanic rock, abrupt, 

 savage, overwhelming, thrown high up to Heaven, 



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