2 COLLOQUIA ENTOMOLOGICA. 



Ven. In exposures, and those kind of things, the D to be 

 pronounced broad, as in the French. 



Ent. Roey — was that you ? 



Ven. As sure as my name 's . 



Ent. Oh ! very well, very well ; I'll expose the fallacy of 

 the triangle next number. 



Erro. It 's all their nonsense ! I should have been 

 ashamed to have written it. 



Amb. Never mind 'em, Mr. Moffy, I intend to read Sphinx 

 Vespiformis myself this winter ; I have tried a dozen times, 

 but I always fall asleep over it. 



Erro. It had rather that effect on me. 



Ent. a proof of its value. I am sometimes rather rest- 

 less in the night, and then I open the Magazine at Chalcy or 

 Straus, and either sends me off like an opiate. I keep the 

 Mag. by the bed-side for the purpose. 



Amb. The medical properties of Clericus and double D, 

 I should imagine, to be sudorific. 



Erro. And Osteology occasions cough, by sticking in the 

 trachea: — but John Curtis has put an extinguisher on that. 



Ent. The Osteology 's nothing to me ; one of 's 



writers say it isn't mine. 



Erro. What envious mortal has done that? 



Amb. Who does he say wrote it, then ? 



Ent. Haliday. 



Ven. Haliday ! he '11 very soon set that at rest ; Haliday 's 

 one of the most honourable men I know. 



Ent. I think he '11 look queerish, when he sees all my 

 rigmarole fathered upon him. 



Amb. What shall you do? 



Ent. Do! nothing! laugh and grow fat. 



Erro. I say. Ambulator, — (leaning across the tahle) — 

 Parca non meiidax dcdit et nialignum 

 Spernere vulgus. 



Ent. How does that run in the vernacular ? 



Amb. Something in this way : — 



Th' indulgent fates to you have given 

 A glorious boon, a boon of heaven, 

 A joyous soul, that laughs to scorn 

 The envy of the lowly born. 



Ven. Capital ! — good ! — very good ! 



