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so frequently in scripture, there being five places of that name (e.g., 

 Josh. xi. i., Judg. iv. 2). 



Macoma : not unlikely to have been coined from the Hebrew 

 word DlpE makom = ' a place.' 



Oronthea {Kellia) ; probably from the river Orontes, which, from 

 its having had Antioch situated on its banks, gave rise to one of 

 Juvenal's most famous epigrams. 



Pera (Pisidiuni) : the well known quarter in the city of Constanti- 

 nople. 



Zacanthusa : a name derived from Zacynthus, one of the Ionian 

 Islands, now called Zante. 



Alexia : another name for Alesia (now Alise in the Cote d'Or), a 

 famous city of Gallia Celtica, taken and destroyed by Julius Caesar, 

 but rebuilt, and an important town till the ninth century ; or it may 

 be from the town Alexia, situated on the Isthmus of Gallipoli. 



Orixa : another name for Denis Island, one of the Seychelles 

 Archipelago. 



These examples may be sufficient to prove how fond Leach was 

 of utilizing/ as titles for his genera, names which occur in classical, 

 but especially in biblical and oriental, geography. 



II. —But again, in looking at others of Leach's genera, we see that 

 while he employed many names of a purely classical origin, his tastes 

 led him repeatedly to oriental and biblical personages, whose titles he 

 readily made use of. Thus from the storehouse of truly Classical 

 names he has borrowed the following : — 



Eledone : deriving the word from Aristotle's 'EAeSwvT/. 



Cydippe ( Tellind) : one of the Nereids. 



Autonoe (Lascea) : the daughter of Cadmus and Hermione, sister 

 of Semele, wife of Aristaeus, and mother of Actaeon. 



From Biblical sources he has derived the following : — 

 Damaris ( Unio) : the Athenian woman who hearkened to St. Paul 

 (Acts xvii. 34). 



Zippora (Rissoa) : the wife of Moses (Exod. ii., 21, Sept.). 



From Oriental sources he has probably taken these amongst 

 others : 



Balcis (Eulima) : Balkis was the Arabic name of the Queen of 

 Sheba. 



Sabansea : perhaps from Saba, the seat of the government of the 

 Queen of Sheba. 



Roxania (Bulla) : probably coined from Roxana, the famous wife 

 of Alexander the Great. 



