<= atis. Ibid. : k 
^ with 4 ihi: Hi; fis of tbe app Wsioceli s Limæus. | gast 
But of all the fpecies of this genus, P/izus pertinax is the xat mif- . 
 chievous ; any kind of wood. that begins to have a tendency to de- . 
- Cay, it attacks without mercy. I fpeak this from experience, having 
a chamber in my houfe, the floor of which is quite filled and per- 
forated in every dire&ion by this defiruátive little infe& ; and my - 
walnut-tree chairs it has nearly reduced to the fame TE .that 
Linnzus obferves it had done his (a). | 
. Amongft the Curculiones, the late i ingenious Mr. Curtis has in- - 
formed us, that C. Lapatbi feeds upon the willow (b). C. lignarius (c) 
preys upon the trunk of putrid elms; and C. atramentarius (2) I. 
have found in all its ftates in old rails under bark. There is one 
infect, which although not as yet difcovered in England, ought not : 
to obe e peg over, as its aor furnifhes a  üriking proof how iis 
GREE cue : the infe& I allude to is He Cantharis Sem of Tini 
nzus. Our prefident, the liberal poffeffor of the Linnæan treafures, 
informs me, from the Jer Weftrogothicum, that the oak timber in the 
royal. dock-yards in Sweden being obferved to have fuffered con- - 
` fiderable injury from fome unknown animal, Linnzus was defired 
by His Swedifh Majefty to trace out the caufe, and point out fome 
remedy which might prevent the further progrefs of fo alarming 
an evil. Upon inquiry he difcovered that the mifchief was occa- 
fioned by this Cantharis, and he recommended that the timber 
: honid be immerfed in water er the ufual time of this infe&'s 
(a) Taie et t defiruxit fedilia mea. Linn. 8yff. Nat. 
(P) Linn. Tranf. Vol. I. p. 86. | * 
(c) Lignarius. 113. C. nigro-piceus tot, en cales thorace memes dd 
‘abbreviatis. Marfham M.S. gate 
zs (d) Atramentarius. 165. c. ater e dm thorace Mae es inidentatoy. tris ftri- 
K k 2 Ta "appearance. 
