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new to themselves, must be new to science, and therefore meriting pub- 

 lic announcement. We all go through this initiatory process, before we 

 learn to distinguish the new from mere " repetitions wearisome of sense." 

 I feel the more desirous to have the vacancies in the provincial areas 

 filled up, on good authority, being in hopes shortly to publish a series of 

 provincial lists of species, in order to show the personal authority upon 

 which the area of each species is set down in this present work. 



It may not be amiss to obseiTe, for the benefit of lady readers, or 

 others who are not familiar with Greek and Latin names, that the one 

 adopted for the present work, is to be pronounced in three syllables, thus, 

 'Cy-be-le.'— (H.C.W.) 



