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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [vOL. 45 



the insect may be driven away from food, it will return to finish 

 its meal. As the shu re seems to be solicitous onlv about his 



pecuniary remuneration, and cares nothing for reprimand or abuse, 

 he receives no more consideration than a fly, and must wear on his 

 head his badge of servitude, which resembles a fly's head. 



