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in beehives, which destroy the combs, and a little spinning 

 worm, which destroys the wax. It is called clerus, or by 

 some persons pyraustes. This creature produces a spider- 

 like animal like itself, which causes sickness in the hive, 

 and another creature like the moth, which flies round the 

 candle. This produces a creature filled with a woolly sub- 

 stance. It is not killed by the bees, and is only driven out 

 by smoking it. A kind of caterpillar also, which is called 

 teredo, is produced in the hives. The bees do not drive it 

 away. They suffer most from diseases when the woods 

 produce flowers infected with rust, and in dry seasons. AlT] 

 insects die when plunged in oil, and most rapidly if their 1 

 head is oiled, and they are placed in the sun. 



CHAPTEE XXVII. 



1. ANIMALS also differ in their localities : for some are en- 

 tirely absent from some localities which exist in others, 

 though small and shortlived, and not thriving. And fre- 

 quently there will be a great difference even in adjoining 

 places, as the grasshopper is found in some parts of Milesia, 

 and is absent from those in the immediate vicinity. And in 

 Cephalenia a river divides the country, on one side of which 

 the grasshopper is found, and not on the other. 



2. In Poroselene a road divides the country, on one side 

 of which the weasel is found, and not on the other. In 

 Bceotia there are many moles in the neighbourhood of 

 Orchomenus, but in the adjoining Lebadian district there 

 are none, nor if they are imported, are they willing to bar- 

 row. If hares are taken into Ithaca they will not live, 

 but are seen dead on the sea coast, turned in the direction 

 in which they were brought. In Sicily the hippomyrmex 

 is not found, and in Gyrene there were formerly no croak- 

 ing frogs. 



3. In all Libya there is neither wild boar, nor stag, nor 

 wild goat. And in India, Ctesias, who is not worthy of 

 credit, says, there are neither domestic nor wild swine ; but 

 the exsanguineous and burrowing tribes are all large. In 

 the Pontus there are no malacia, nor all the kinds of tes- 

 tacea, except in a few places ; but in the Ked Sea all the 

 testacea are of a great size. In Syria there are sheep with 

 tails a cubit in width, and the ears of the goats are a spaa 



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