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did not come under his own immediate observa- 

 tion, was related to him by a person on whose au- 

 thority he could place full reliance, and which is 

 directly the reverse of what I have stated respect- 

 ing bees. It is, that among the locusts, when the 

 female has done laying, she is surrounded and 

 killed by the males. 



