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barrels ; the larvae having probably been hatched in the wood 

 of which the staves were made, and then relinquished their 

 original habitations for the richer diet furnished by the flour. 



We now come to a most extraordinary insect, which is drawn 

 on Woodcut XXI. Fig. 3. It goes by a great number of 

 names. The scientific title by which it is now known is 



1, Gracilia pyctmaea. 2. Strangalia amiata. 3. Astinumus asdilis. 4. Pogonocerus pilosus. 

 5. Rhagium inquisitor. 



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Astinomus cecUlis. There is no possibility of mistaking this 

 insect, our sole representative of its genus, which may be 

 known by the broad flattened body, the tubercles on the sides of 

 the thorax, and the enormous length of the antennae, which in 

 the females are twice as long as the bod}^ and in the males some- 

 times more than four times the length of the body. This 

 inordinate length is obtained by the elongation of the joints, 

 not by multiplying them. 



