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with the Leucopholis bimaculata of India, which, if it be 

 voracious in proportion to its size, must destroy a vast amount 



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of vegetation in the course of its long larval existence. Tlie 

 Goliath beetles of the coast of Gruinea, are truly deserving of 



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their name, and in torrid America the colossal Hercules beetle 

 attains a length of five, or even six incites. Though but 

 little is yet known of its economy, it most likely subsists 

 upon putrescent wood, and evidently leads a tree life, like its 

 relations — the Elephant, the Neptune, the Typhon, the Hector, 



