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minute account of them, of their food, 

 qualities, &c. in the Memoirs of the Swedi/h 

 Royal Academy of Sciences * $ it is therefore 

 needlefs to repeat it here, and I refer the 

 reader to the quoted place. 



May the 25th. The tulip-tree (Lirio- 

 dendron tulip iferaj was now in full blofTom. 

 The flowers have a refemblance to tulips, and 

 look very fine, and though they have not a 

 very agreeable fmell, yet the eye is pleafed 

 to fee trees as tall as full-grown oaks, co- 

 vered with tulip-like flowers. 



On the flowers of the tulip-tree was 

 an olive-coloured Chafer (Scarabaus) with- 

 out horns fmuticus), the future and borders 

 of his wing- (hells f Elytra?) were black, 

 and his thighs brown. I cannot with cer- 

 tainty fay whether they collected the pol- 

 len of the flower, or whether they coupled. 

 Later in fummer, I faw the fame kind of 

 beetles make deep holes into the ripe mul- 

 berries* either to eat them, or to lay their 

 eggs in them. I likewife found them 

 abundant in the leaves of the Magnolia 

 glauca, or beaver- tree. 



The ftraw- berries were now ripe on the 

 hills. 



O 3 The 



* See the volume for the year 1756, page 10, of the 

 SwcJiJb edition. 



