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florets which produced this little plant ; but fome ears of a kind of 

 bearded wheat, which I cultivated in my garden, were quite dif- 

 coloured by it, without any larva attending upon it. Of all the 

 infects that are found in wheat, the Thr'ips phyfapus, in all its 

 ftates, is by far the moll: numerous. I do not recollect examining a 

 iingle ear in which it was not to be found ; and my opinion ftill 

 remains unaltered, that it derives its nouriihment from the grain ; 

 nor can I look upon the fpecies of this genus as carnivorous, any 

 more than thofe which belong to its neighbouring genera, Aphis % 

 Cbcrmesy and Coccus. 



I have nothing further at this time to add upon this interefling 

 fubjedt, and therefore believe me, &c. 



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