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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
black. On the head and extreme end 
of thorax two transverse black bands. 
In form, colour, and general appear- 
ance, closely resembles the pupa of 
M. Artemis. He yd. H. Harpur 
Crewe, The Rectory, Drayton Beau- 
champ, Tring , 
Benzine. With reference to your 
leading article of Saturday last, I 
may say that I find it quite impossible 
to obtain Benzine in a pure state. As 
obtained in shops it is pregnant with 
greasy matter and other impurities, 
and for Entomological purposes re- 
quires re-distillation. If this process 
be carefully gone through, with per- 
fectly clean apparatus, I believe it 
will do away with the inconveniences 
attending the use of this useful com- 
modity. Z. Armitage, Townfield 
House, Altrincham. 
Entomological English. On the prin- 
ciple of “ audi alteram partem ,” let 
me offer a word or two on this subject. 
It is easy to hold up a word or a 
phrase to ridicule, but it may be as 
easy to point the shaft the other way. 
It may seem very unpoetical to speak 
of the “ Dingy Mocha,” quoted by 
you, but it would appear, I think, 
equally out of the vein to apostrophise 
the “ Lousewort,” the “ Toad Elax,” 
or the “ Catstail,” or to indite an ode 
to the “ Hog’s Fennel,” the “ Sow 
Thistle,” the “ Goosefoot,” the “Vip- 
er’s Bugloss,” or the “ Biting Stone- 
crop ; ” — let alone the “ Henbane,” 
the “Dogstail Grass,” the “ Stinging 
Nettle,” the “foetid Horchound,” or 
even the “mugwort,” the “Dande- 
lion,” the “ Loosestrife,” or the 
“ common Skullcap.” 
When I was at Bromsgrove School, 
one of the boys sent his Sophocles and 
his Euripides to the Bookbinder’s to be 
bound, and the boy who brought them 
back announced the fact with “ Please 
Sir your Yurepides and your Sphdcles 
are done ; ” and I have myself heard 
some of our unclassical brother En- 
tomologists talk of Cardamines, Dap- 
lidice, Cassiope, and Europome, — a 
usage of Latin hardly to be considered 
in common vogue. I plead guilty to the 
frequent adaptation of Latin quota- 
tions, but I guarded myself by saying 
that I translated every where when 
necessary, and therefore was hardly 
likely to contradict myself by adding 
the remainder of the original sentence 
“ obscurus fio.” 
Let me, in conclusion, thank you 
very sincerely for the flattering manner 
in which you have several times spok- 
en of my “ History of British 
Moths.” As the plates are not of my 
own execution, I will say of them 
that they are worthy of the highest 
praise that can be given, and that 
they are the best, — the very best, ever 
yet produced, in this or any other 
country. Yours is about the five 
hundredth encomium on my works 
that I have received from various parts 
of the three kingdoms, and from each 
of the four quarters of the Globe. A 
friend of mine told me once that every 
morning, at breakfast, when the 
Postman’s knock comes, he expects to 
receive a letter from some respectable 
country solicitor to inform him that 
