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Trox, &c., we could not have even guessed the genera : and 

 in the description, we have " punctured with elevated lines," 

 and similar inconsistencies continually. Names are also fre- 

 quently incorrect : Callidium bnjidum was a typographical 

 error in Mr. Stephens's Catalogue, since corrected in his Illus- 

 trations. A Nomada, figured some time back, Mr. Samouelle 

 will see by referring to the Monographia Apum, is incorrectly 

 named. In the same number we observe the author adopts 

 the old mistake of Fabricius about JEgeria Asiliformis, though 

 so recently satisfactorily cleared up by Mr. Newman. 



In every case in which an author endeavours to combine 

 popularity and extensive sale, with science, an unusual degree 

 of accuracy is required ; as, in these instances, the blunders 

 are calculated to do so much more harm from their wider 

 dissemination. We hope Mr. Samouelle will profit by our 

 admonition, and give us no reason to make similar complaints 

 in our January number. We wish him success ; but we should 

 recommend him to take the necessary means to ensure it. 



Art. IV. — Some Observations on Blight. By Rusticus. 



Sir, — It strikes me, that if you make the Entomological 

 Magazine merely a medium for monographs, and that descrip- 

 tion of writing, your readers will weary of your unceasing- 

 technicalities, and lose their appetite before the quarterly meal 

 you propose providing for them is consumed. There are many, 

 who, like myself, are well enough pleased with a little taste of 

 the science, without wishing to dip too deeply into it ; and I 

 beg of you to consider whether an occasional paper, containing 

 no crack-jaw, would not be an inducement to some of these to 

 take up your Mag. With this view, I shall send you a few 

 observations on blights of various kinds, giving you full per- 

 mission to translate any phrases which are too plain for the 

 comprehension of the elite, into your choicest cat-Latin ; but 

 recollect. Sir, such editorial translations must be confined to 

 foot-notes with Ed. attached : — I would not, for all the world, 

 have the sin of your barbarisms to answer for. 



Bhght is a term generally misunderstood ; especially among 

 those whom it more particularly concerns. The knowing 



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