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“ eastaceous-red,” ‘* hoary-griseous,” “ griseous-rosy,” 
“ rusty-testaceous,” and numerous others, equally offen- 
sive to good sense and correct taste. We meet also 
with such phrases as “a very obsolete spot,” “* a einer- 
ascent striga totally obliterated,” the meaning of which 
I do not pretend to be able to decypher, as my eyes are 
not acute enough to perceive what is “obsolete” or 
“ totally obliterated,” much less to see its colour. If T 
had room I could exemplify this in many other things 
than colour—such as “ strigated” for “ streaked 5” 
besides the use of Latin words innumerable, without 
alteration, where English words would be more expres- 
sive. 
But with all this affectation of mongrel Latin so bar- 
harously mixed up with English, the writers seem to have 
but’a very scanty knowledge of Latin itself; for when 
the descriptions pretend to be in Latin, all grammar is 
set at defiance, and it is no more Latin than the other 
is English, it being no very uncommon occurrence to 
meet with such phrases as “ad stigmatibus flavis,” 
“ lituré interjecto,” ‘*puncto ocellaris,” “ stigma antica,” 
“ stigmata site ;” and similar ungrammatical language, 
such as would not even have been blundered upon by a 
schoolboy. 
Science can never be benefitted by terms and lan- 
guage of this sort, while it is out of all question thereby 
degraded and confined to a narrow circle, beyond which 
it can only be extended by simple terms and plain lan- 
