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hearing; the upper lip hard and shining. By its regular pulsa- 

 tions, like the ticking of a watch, it sometimes surprises those 

 that are strangers to its nature and properties, who fancy its 

 beating portends a family change, and the shortening of the thread 

 of life. Put into a box, it may be heard and seen in the act of 

 pulsation, with a small proboscis, against the sides of it; for food, 

 more probably than for hymeneal pleasure, as some have 

 fancied." — Hist. North., i., 367. 



3. A. PANiCEUM, Linn. 



StepU. Illust, Mand., iii., 340. 

 In shops, Newcastle. — T. J. B. 



4. A. MOLLE, Linn. 



Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 341. 

 " Twizell." — P. J. Selby, Esq. In Scotch fir paling, at Benton 

 Bank. — T. J. B. In windows, at Gateshead. — J.H. May — 

 September. 



5. A. Abietis, Fah. 



Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 341. 

 " Twizell."— P. J. Selhy, Esq. 



Family 8. BOSTBICHID^, Westw. 

 J229. Rhtzopertha, Stephens. 

 X\. B. pusiLLA, Fab, 



Steph. Illust., Mand., iii,, 354. 

 Amongst rice, and once in abundance in Egyptian wheat. — 

 T. J. B. 



It is a native of the East Indies. 



X2. R. ciNCTA, Newman. 



Newman, Ent. Mag., ii., 203. — Steph. Manual, No. 1625. 



" This insect is, I believe, unique in the cabinet of Mr. Wales." 



Newman, I.e. 



From its being associated with R. pusilla, this is probably a 

 foreign insect. Unfortunately, the description only gives us the 

 colour, without any allusion to the sculpture. 



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