116 THE FLORIST AND 
could not recognize Drury's L. Lydia, and what idea can he have of species 
in any branch of natural sciences, as palaeontology, in which the characters 
are obscure, when he cannot determine that his figures 4 and 5 are distinct. 
Plate 26, fig. 7, taken from Drury, vol. 2, and spoiled. It has two wings 
on right, and one split one on the left. Figs. 1, 5, are miserable. 
Plate 27, figs. 11 and 12, " undescribed." To ascertain this, it is neces- 
sary to know the genera. Fig. 11 has the right wing as in the Ichneumoni- 
dae, and the left perhaps of some fossil family. 
Midas filatus (p. 28, fig. II,) being incorrect in Drury, (vol. I, 44, fig. 1,) 
is copied even to an error in one of the wings. 
The book has numerous typographical errors, some of which are the 
result of ignorance, as "femor" for femwr, the Latin termination 2S for ws 
Amy for Amyot, and Dr. Fitch explains the abbreviation Hf. as standing 
for Hoffman, apparently not knowing that the latter is itself an abbreviation 
of Hoffmansegg. 
We come new to the scholarship of the author, who, it will be remem- 
bered, is a college professor. He follows Kirby & Lindley in giving an 
English name to each insect in his book, but he far excels them in absm-dity. 
His anglicised index shows ignorance of the insects, and of the import of 
their names. 
Agonoderus means "without an angular neckj" it is translated ^^ angular 
beetle." 
Anisodactylus agricola (because found in fields,) is made " narrow 
necked." 
Anchomenes (fr. ayx^, to squeeze the throat,) is made ditch beetle, as 
if from ayxojj a cleft. 
Aphodius is translated footless beetle, as if from «, neg, and Ttws, a foot, 
although it has feet and uses them quite well. 
A spotted species, A. Serval, named from the spotted cat so called, is 
translated "servile." Cucujus, from the South American name cucujo, is 
translated mixed beetle, as if from scvxaco. Coelioxys meaning "pointed 
abdomen," is turned into ceiling wasp. Ips lives in fungi and dead wood ; 
it is called "vine beetle." 
Notiophilus is found in moist places, whence its name, (from votoav^ a 
marsh, andt'-'^^s) but Dr. Emmons calls it "notion beetle." 
These names would be admirable if he had been writing a Comic 
Natural History. But we have neither time nor inclination to give more 
examples. 
We have now taken a rapid glance at the text, without attempting to 
mention a tithe of its blunders. In fact, the book contains materials for 
