THE PINE-CHAFER The orthodox denomination of this insect is _Melolontha fullo_, Lin.

It does not answer, I am very well aware, to be difficult in matters of nomenclature; make a noise of some sort, affix a Latin termination, and you will have, as far as euphony goes, the equivalent of many of the tickets pasted in the entomologist's specimen boxes.

The cacophony would be excusable if the barbarous term signified nothing but the creature signified; but as a rule this name possesses, hidden in its Greek or other roots, a certain meaning in which the novice hopes to find instruction.
The hope is a delusion.

The learned term refers to subtleties difficult to comprehend, and of very indifferent importance.

Too often it leads the student astray, giving him glimpses that have nothing whatever in common with the truth as we know it from observation.