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256 Rev. Mr. Kinnv's Obfervations upon Infecis that prey upon Timber, 
Mr. Trimmer thinks that thefe infe&s fly only during the night, 
as in the day-time he always found them ftanding upon the piece 
of wood from which they had been difclofed.. The cafe is different - 
with Cerambyx arcuatus, which, a$ I obferved before, flies at mid- 
day: but perhaps this circumftance may depend much upon the 
ftate of the atmofphere, or the hour of the day ; for many infects 
have their certain hours for flying; a fingular inftance of which 
I had once an opportunity of witneffing. In the beginning of 
July 1793, about: ten o'clock in the morning, as I was pafling 
through a meadow, I was furprifed with the appearance of what: 
at firft feemed to me to be myriads of bees flying about the hedges -~ 
and trees; but, upon taking fome of them, the ey proved to be Scara- 
beus argenteus (Melolontba argentea Fab.) ; upon my return through 
the fame field, a little after noon, I was aftonifhed to find that of 
this infinite hoft of infects not a # fingls one was te be feen. 
E have Kow T all më blen kion which Mr. Time 
. mer made with refpeét to the hiftory of this infeét ; thefe I hope 
will not be thought unworthy of the attention of the Linnean So- 
ciety, fince they furnifh an ufeful leffon in GEconomics, and fupply 
an additional proof of the utility of the ftudy of Natural js 
and to what good purpofes it may be directed. — — = 
Mr. Trimmer, when he came to Barham, brought with him ie 
| Yimens of this infect in all its ftates, as alfo fome pieces of the wood 
that had been attacked by it, from which I employed my ingenious 
friend the Rev. Peter, Lathbury, F. L. S. to make the drawings 
which aécompany this paper. Nothing now remains but to clofe ` 
this account with a defcription of each ftate of the infect. 
CERAMBYX 
