Note 440 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 2)

Although the London College, for reasons sufficiently weighty, were induced on a former occasion to transfer the Blistering fly from the genus Cantharis to that of Lytta, the Committee for revising the late Pharmacopœia determined, on the authority of Latreille, to restore it to its former genus. The work of Latreille, “Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum” holds the highest rank in Entomology of any hitherto published.