106 SOME SCRAPS BY THE 



Var. e. — Niger, thorace antice abdominis segmento 4 t0 . et sequenti- 

 bus rufis, femora nigro-fusca, tibiae fuscae, coxae tarsique fere toti 

 ferruginei, femora apice et tibiae basi flavae, in aliis litura rufa 

 occipitis et alia sub antennis. 



Var. £. — Rufus, vertice, metathorace, abdominis segmento l mo . 

 nigris : antennae nigrae : pedes fusci, coxis, femorum apice, tibia- 

 rum basi tarsisque late fiavo-testaceis ; trochanteribus flavis, — 

 in aliis metathorax et segmentum l mum . tantum medio infuscata 

 sunt, — in aliis color abdominis pedumque magis flavo-testaceus, 

 femorum posteriorum ima basi, tibiis tarsisque apice fuscis. 



His omnibus alarum radix et squamulae rufae sunt puncto nigro. 



Habitat Italiam Germaniam, N. ab E. — Angliam, Hiberniam, Ebrides 

 Insulas. — In Anglia rarior esse videtur quum inter collectanea 

 ditissima F. Walkerii nonnisi unicum exemplar obvium erat. — 

 In Hibernia deprehendi fere gregarium per margines fluviorum 

 plantis aquaticis insidentem. 



Adnot. — Altera species R. mutilator, N. ab E. Monogr. I. 221. 

 No. 29. mibi invisa Germaniam habitat. 



Explicit Genus Rogas. b 



Art. XII. — Some Scraps by the Author of the Delta 



Letters. 



The early historians of the conquest, or rather the de- 

 struction of America, present us but too often with little, 

 save details of horrid atrocities committed on those harmless, 

 innocent lambs (as the truly excellent Bishop of Chiassa calls 

 them) the native Americans. How heart-rending are these 

 details ! 



The hand that mingled in the meal, 

 At midnight drew the felon steel, 

 And gave the host's kind breast to feel 



Meed for his hospitality. 

 The friendly hearth which warmed that hand, 

 At midnight armed it with the brand 

 That bade destruction's flames expand 



Their red and fearful blazonry. 



Then woman's shriek was heard in vain ; 



Nor infancy's unpitied plain, 



More than the warrior's groan, could gain 



Respite from ruthless butchery. 



b Tha characters of the Subgenus Heterospilus, which should be in connexion 

 with the foot-note in page 47, have been misplaced in printing. 



