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I the name as well as myself, and I 
lhave no douht would also be glad 
I to be enlightened. — N. Cooke, 
Liverpool ; January 31, 1857. 
The Testimonial to the Rev. 
Joseph Greene . — Permit me to re- 
imark that I altogether object, 
I upon principle, to the proposed 
testimonial to the Rev. J. Greene. 
No one can he more sensible of 
ithe value of Mr. Greene’s labours 
in Entomology than myself, but if 
you once resolve to present pieces 
of plate to the authors of papers 
in our periodicals, where are you 
to begin and where to end ? 
Among the writers on Entomo- 
logy how many are there who have 
fairly earned such a mark of dis- 
tinction ! but who ever thought of 
repaying literary fame by silver 
candlesticks or candelabra ? Sure- 
ly the proposition is ill-judged. — 
Crixo. 
Mr. Editor, — I have been greatly shocked at the ignorance displayed 
Iby your poet in the misapplication of names. I hope he is not the gen- 
Itleman with the corns. I allude to the term bugfly : if he will use it, at 
I least let him apply it properly, and not to the dubnoses, which are not 
hugs at all, poor things, hut regular built beetles: surely their case is 
lhard enough already without giving them nicknames. The real hugflies 
are the pnnaises, tlie Hemiptera, a class of insects which your exchanging 
contributors do not appear to deal in. However, as I think that ento- 
tmologists ought to have a smattering of the whole, and not restrict their 
labours to the Brocades and the Bricks, the Festoons and the Daggers, 
the Emperors and the Chimney-sweeps, the Admirals and the Quakers, 
II have attempted a page or two of doggrel on the subject of hugflies, 
imitating as nearly as I can the efforts of your poet laureate. 
HOW TO CLASSIFY THE BUGFLIES OK HEMIPTEEA. 
Place first all the hugflies proper, 
With their long and large antennm 
Stretched out visibly before them ; 
Fore wings always of two textures ; 
Where they fit on to the body 
They are tiiick and tough like leather, 
But the lips are quite transparent. 
Thin and flexible and filmy, 
One laid on the other crosswise: 
All their legs are very simple. 
Formed for running, not for leaping. 
And their feet are all three-jointed. 
On the sap of plants they fatten. 
Sucking it with pointed rostrum ; 
Oh, they smell so very nasty ! 
Like the hug vve find in houses. 
Even that’s a bugfly proper. 
One whose wings are undeveloped: 
All are known as Cimicina. 
