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to form new genera, thanthofe who are 

 the leaffc qualified for it. , | /. . 



Coiningof newnames, and changing k 

 of one old one for another, has been 

 the fource of the greatefl: confufion. 

 Thus-, in order to reduce the Ckindela 

 and Carabus to the fame genus, Buprejlis 

 has been adopted for the generic name; 

 but as that genus had long ago received 

 a very different application, it was 

 changed for that of Cucujus. 



Again, that the qfficinal Cantharides. 

 might be ranged among the Ceram- 

 byces, the Cantharides have been re- 

 moved from the genus of Meloe (to 

 which they naturally belong) and re- 

 ferred to the genus of Cicindela ; ob- 

 taining thus a new name, and fo of 

 many others. 



Thus, alfo, to mention no more, 

 how needlefs and rafli was it to feparate 

 the Acridium and Locujia from the ge- 



nus 



