Why not call our subject the Pine-chafer, in reference to the beloved tree, the paradise of the insect during the two or three weeks of its aerial life?
Nothing could be simpler, or more appropriate, to give the better reason last.
We have to wander for ages in the night of absurdity before we reach the radiant light of the truth.

All our sciences witness to this fact; even the science of numbers.

Try to add a column of Roman figures; you will abandon the task, stupefied by the confusion of symbols; and will recognise what a revolution was made in arithmetic by the discovery of the zero.

Like the egg of Columbus, it was a very little thing, but it had to be thought of.
While hoping that the future will sink the unfortunate "fuller" in oblivion, we will use the term "pine chafer" between ourselves.

Under that name no one can possibly mistake the insect in question, which frequents the pine-tree only.
It has a handsome and dignified appearance, rivalling that of _Oryctes nasicornis_.