SONNETOID ON LLANTHONY. XO i 



Hanson, and without exception, females; a circumstance which 

 makes it doubly riskful to describe as a new species, that which 

 may prove the female of some one previously described. The 

 colour is wholly testaceous, the legs being clothed with long 

 hair of the same colour. 



The plate drawn and engraved by Mr. Ingall, is most libe- 

 rally presented by that gentleman to the Entomological Ma- 

 gazine. It was intended for colouring, and the impressions 

 were taken off for that purpose ; circumstances preventing this 

 have, however, supervened : any explanation of these would be 

 as painful to ourselves as uninteresting to our readers. 



Art. XXXVI. — A Sonnetoid on Llanthouy. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



Sir, — It is difficult to say what the enclosed has to do with 

 Entomology, except as the common subject of a vignette in one 

 of your late numbers. But it is so rarely that any of our 

 Nugce can be hooked on to your exceedingly dry and scientific 

 details, that, perhaps, the attempt may be received with 

 indulgence. Observe, it is not a sonnet, but a species as yet 

 unclescribed, being two lines longer than all the rest of the 

 family. 



A. S. K. 



Crickhowell, 2lst. Nov. 1836. 



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There may be mightier ruins ; — Conway's flood 



Mirrors a mass more noble far than thine ; 

 And Aberystwith's gaunt remains have stood 



The ceaseless shock where winds and waves combine ; 



Lone is Dalbadarn, and the lovely shrine 

 Of Valle Crucis is a spell of power 



By which each meaner thought and sense are chained; 

 Proud of that long array of arch and tower, 



Raglan may claim a rude pre-eminence; 

 Tintern is peerless at the moonlit hour 



