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designated by De Jean as distinct, have names 

 applied to them without any of the characters being 

 published ; I adopt therefore the name of Tetro- 

 pium, published by my friend the Rev. William 

 Kirby, in his Fauna Boreali Americana, where 

 the details will be found accurately described ; a 

 work certainly not sufficiently appreciated in our 

 own country as it ought to be : fault has been 

 found with it by those who know little of exotic 

 forms. If Mr. Kirby has formed his types of 

 genera from specimens in his own collection, and 

 has not the opportunity of knowing what has been 

 already published by others (as he lives almost 

 entirely in the country), it only corroborates the 

 views of those Entomologists who have preceded 

 him. There can be little doubt that Mr. Kirby is 

 too profound in science to adopt visionary theoreti- 

 cal views. The Fauna Boreali Americana is the 

 publication of an Entomologist, who is an octoge- 

 narian, and I have no hesitation in stating that 

 few naturalists living, if any, at Mr. Kirby 's extra- 

 ordinary age, have their faculties less impaired. 

 Where is the individual that could publish, in this 

 country, such a Fauna? That it has errors no one 

 will doubt, (what work has not ?) Let those how- 

 ever who find the greatest fault look to their own 

 inferior publications, and then consider that some 

 merit is due to a veteran in science ; one whose 

 name will certainly be as devotedly cherished in 

 England as Latreille is deservedly in France, " ferat 

 palmam qui meruit." 



