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larvge do not propagate, and that only one pupa and 

 one perfect insect were voided ;* but the simple fact 

 that most beetles live several years in the state of 

 larvse sufficiently accounts for this. Their existing and 

 thriving in the stomach, too, will appear less wonder- 

 ful from the fact that it is exceedingly difficult to kill 

 this insect ; for Mr. Henry Baker repeatedly plunged 

 one into spirits of wine, so fatal to most insects, but 

 it revived, even after being immersed a whole night, 

 and afterwards lived three years. t 



Churchyard-beetle (Blaps mortisaga) in the ^ub and perfect state, 

 from the figures of Dr. Pickells. 



That there was no deception on the part of the 

 woman is proved by the fact that she was always 

 anxious to conceal the circumstance; and that it was 

 only by accident that the medical gentlemen, Drs. 

 Pickells, Herrick, and Thomson, discovered it. More- 

 over, it does not appear that, though poor, she ever 

 took advantage of it to extort money. It is interest- 



* Cooper's edition of Good's Study of Medicine, i. 358. 

 t Philosoph. Trans., No. 457. 



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