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M. Latreille, however, thinks that the wood-louse 

 is only the grub of the Psocus abdominalis, in which 

 case it could not lay eggs; but this opinion is some- 

 what questionable. Another death-watch is a small 

 beetle (Anobmm tesselatum) . 



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