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been in France, fliould one-relate the extravagant notion 
they entertain of themfelves, and the mean opinion they 
have of their neighbours. Addifon's Freeholder. —Sen fual- 
wits they were, who, it is probable, took pleafure in ridi¬ 
culing the notion of a life to come. Attcrhury. 
God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. 
And not rnoleft us; unlefs we ourfelves 
Seek them with wandering thoughts and notions vain. 
Milton's P. L. 
Senfe; underftanding: intellectual power. This fenfe is 
frequent in Shakefpeare, but not in ufe.— So told, as 
earthly notion can receive. Milton. 
His notion weakens, his difcernings 
Are lethargied. ShaTicfpcarc's K. Lear. 
NO'TIONAL, acJj. Imaginary; ideal; intellectual; 
fubfifting only in idea ; visionary; fantaftical.—We muff 
be wary, lead we afcribe any real fubfiftence or perfonality 
to this nature or chance ; for it is merely a notional and 
imaginary thing; an a bit raft univerfal, whicli is properly 
nothing ; a conception of our own making, occafioned by 
our reflecting upon the fettled courfe of things ; denoting 
only thus much, that all their bodies move and aft ac¬ 
cording to their eflential properties, without any confci- 
oufnefs or intention of fo doing. Bentley. 
Happinefs, objeft of that waking dream 
Which we call life, miffaking; fugitive theme 
Of my purfuing verfe, ideal (hade, 
Notional good, by fancy only made. Prior. 
Dealing in ideas, not realities. — The mod forward notional 
dictators fit down in a contented ignorance. Glanville's 
Scepjis. 
NOTIONAL'ITY, f. Empty ungrounded opinion. 
Not naio in vje.—l aimed at the advance of fcience, by 
difcrediting empty and talkative nationality. Glanville .— 
True and manly religion is no cold and comfortlefs thing; 
it is not a lukewarm nationality, not a formal and bayardly 
round of duties, not a dull “ temperamentum ad pond us,” 
as they call it; but is lively, vigorous, and fparklipg. 
Goodman s Wint. Ev. Corf. 
NO'TIONALLY, adv. In idea; mentally ; in our con¬ 
ception, though not in reality.—The whole rational na¬ 
ture of man confifls of two faculties, underftanding and 
will, whether really or nationally diftinft, I (hall not dif- 
pute. Norris's Mijcellanies. 
NO'TIONIST, f. One who holds an ungrounded opi¬ 
nion. Not in nfe.— Content not yourfelves with fome part 
of it, that you read the Gofpel or New Teftament, but 
negleft the Old, as is the praftice of fome flufti notionijis. 
Bp. Hopkins's Expof. of the Lord's Prayer. 
NOTi'TIA, in literary hiftory, a book that gives an 
account of a particular country, city, or other place; 
fuch is the Notitia Imperii Romani, Notitia Romce Antiquce, 
Sec. M. Valois has given a Notitia Galliarum, being a col- 
leftion of the feveral names which the cities and pro¬ 
vinces of that kingdom bore at different times. The 
Nothin Dignitatum Imperii, both Eaftern and Weftern, 
are of the utmoft ufe both in the Roman and in eccle- 
fiaftical hiftory ; yet they are of little fervice, at lead to 
young people, without good notes; fuch are thole of 
P.uicirojlus, &c. 
NO'TO (Val di), one of the three valleys or provinces 
into which Sicily is divided ; it lies between the fea, Val- 
di-Demona, and Val-di-Mazara. 
NO'TO, or Noto Antico, an ancient, large, and 
liandfome, town of Sicily, and capital of the Val-di-Noto. 
It was entirely ruined by an earthquake in 1693; but the 
inhabitants built another town at fome diftance from it, 
which they call Noro Nuovo; and which is twenty 
miles fouth-weft of Syracufe, and twenty-feven eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Girgenti. Lat. 36.48. N. Ion. 15. E. 
NO'TO, a lake of Ruflla, in the government of Arch¬ 
angel, about thirty-fix miles in length, and eight in 
breadth: thirty-fix miles fouth-weft of Kola. 
N O T 
NO'TO, q fmall ifland in the Baltic, eaft of Aland; 
Lat. 59. 58. N. Ion. 20. 37. E. 
NO'TO, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 200 
miles north-weft of Jeddo, and 170 north-north-eaft of 
Meaco. 
NOTOCLE'A, f. [from the Gr. nor oj, the back, and 
y.Xc-ioc, famous; on account of the remarkable form and 
convexity of the back.] In entomology, a genus of co¬ 
leopterous infefts, firft named and deferibed by Thomas 
Marfham, efq. Tr. L.S. Thefe infefts refemble the Chiy- 
fomelte, and are included in that genus by Latreille ; but, 
on clofer examination, they will be found to differ in the 
fiiape of the body, and the laft joint of the palpi; the an¬ 
tennae alfo are more filiform, and the exterior margin of 
the elytra at the bafe is angular, and not rounded as in 
Chryfomela and Coccinella. The ftiape of the body and 
of the exterior palpi gives them a ftrong refemblance to 
Coccinella, but the antennae, totally exclude them from 
that genus. The dilated elytra of fome fpecimens, par¬ 
ticularly on the under fide, claim an affinity with Caflida, 
but in that mark only they agree. 
Generic charafters — Antennae filiform ; head fmall, 
tranfverfe, loofe, bending downwards; thorax tranfverfe, 
broadly margined; elytra broadly margined, outer angle 
of the bafe acute; body oval, back very convex, under 
part plane. There are twenty fpecies ; and, on the an¬ 
nexed Engraving, each anfwers to its number in the fol¬ 
lowing enumeration. They are all natives of New Holland. 
I. Notoclea variolofa; black; the elytra fprinkled with 
confluent yellow fpots. Length of the body 7 lines, 
breadth 3 lines. 
z. Notoclea reticulata : dirty yellow'; elytra red, reti¬ 
culated with raifed yellow fpots ; wings'red. Length 4! 
lines, breadth 3^. 
3. Notoclea atomaria : body yellowifli; front of the 
head pale, back part and antennae yellowilh red; elytra 
marked with pale funk dots on a reddifh ground; eyes and. 
mouth black. Length 4| lines, breadth 3J. 
4. Notoclea lutea: body above very pale yellow, with 
raifed yellow tubercles on the fhielcl ; eyes, mouth, and 
abdomen, black. Length 7 lines, breadth 5. 
5. Notoclea maculata: thorax marginated on each fide, 
elytra brown, pale fpots on the fides. Head and thorax: 
dirty yellow; antennas half the length of the body, fili¬ 
form, black, but yellow at the bafe; the four largeft fpots 
on the back form a fquare. Length 4 lines, breadth 3A, 
6. Notoclea quadrimaculata : body clay-colour, with a. 
black line down the middle, large brownifh fpots on the 
back ; elytra rough ; thorax yellowifli. Length 5 lines, 
breadth 35. 
7. Notoclea ornata: body red, with a black line dowrr 
the middle ; yellow fpots and ftrias on the elyt-ra. The 
whole under part uniformly rufefeent. Length 3.5 lines, 
breadth z|. 
8. Notoclea obfoleta: red ; the antennas and eyes black, 
and ten black fpots on each of the elytra, difpoied in three 
rows. Length 3] lines, breadth 2^. 
9. Notoclea minor : red ; antennae teftaceous ; three 
black bands acrofs each of the elytra ; eyes black. Un¬ 
der parts and feet pale. Length only 2 lines, breadth id. 
10. Notoclea teftncea: body entirely teftaceous, pale ; 
eyes and antennas black ; elytra ftriated. Length 3 lines, 
breadth 2. 
II. Notoclea ftiftica: head reddifh, with two black dots 
on the occiput; eyes black; thorax rufous; fhielcl black ; 
elytra pale, with numerous black dots. Size of the pre¬ 
ceding. 
12. Notoclea verrucofa : body above, dull red; eyes 
black; numerous black tubercles, or worts, on the ely¬ 
tra; feet reddifh, thighs black. Length 3-J.lines, breadth 2d. 
13. Notoclea brunnaea: body dark red; elytra faintly 
ftriated; abdomen and feet brown. Length 5 fines, 
breadth 3-J-. 
14. Notoclea immaculata: body dark brown ; antenna; 
longer than the thorax, and yellowifli. Length 5-d lines, 
breadth 4^. 
15. Notoclea 
