favorite couplets

[Kirkendall Lawrence]

My "favorite" couplet as an entomology student was in the key to beetle
families in Borror, DeLong and Tripplehorn.  It ran something like "tarsi
apparently 5-5-4"  (if the details are wrong, the substance is
correct!).  This stumped me, since it seemed to require an assessment of
the average key-user's ability to find the
difficult-but-not-impossible-to-see first segment...

Lawrence R.  Kirkendall
Assist. Prof., Univ. Bergen
FAX  (506) 234 61 64 "L.  Kirkendall c/o Humberto Lezama, Museo de Insectos"
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