COLEOPTERA. 



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are whitish, with mssety heads, Hve in the interior of trees, their 

 existence in that state lasting nearly four years. Many naturalists 



i think that the larva of the LucaJius was the Cossus of the Romans, 

 which figured on the tables of the rich patricians, and particularly 

 of Lucullus. 



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