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all, I shall be silent ; where I find they have told but part, I 

 shall add my mite. By a comparison of the two histories 

 above, it will be evident that the excellent " Introduction" 

 has been consulted; or if not evident, I do not desire to conceal 

 the fact. 



Art. XL VII I. — Entomological Notes. By Edwakd 



Newman. 



(Continued from p. 31 5.) 



Class, — Hymen optera. 



Natural Order. — Apathites, Neivman. 



Genus. — Melecta, Latreille. 



It is pleasant to create a smile ; and I anticipate that many 

 smiles will be accorded me when I coolly assure your readers, 

 that I am going to make six distinct species out of Melecta 

 punctata, and that I cannot, for the life of me, tell to which 

 of these the name punctata properly belongs, and therefore 

 have given it to neither. It is pleasant to see one's new 

 species given, without comment, as synonyms ; and when 

 this happens, and happen it certainly will to my Melectfs, I 

 hope I shall take it as good-humouredly as Mr. Waterhouse 

 did, when he beheld his fourteen new Notiophili con- 

 signed to utter oblivion. 



All my pretty ones ? 

 Did you say o// ? What! all? 

 What ! all my pretty chickens 

 At one fell swoop? 



In these cases there is this comfort, that if the new-made 

 species are really species, they will in the course of time be 

 re-admitted : allow a year for each really new species parted 

 from an old one ; then the Notiophili will be re-admitted by 

 the year 47, and the Melectce — for I reckon them already 

 struck out — by the year 41. 



