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CHAPTER VII. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Beetles. Cockroaches, Locusts, and Grasshoppers. 

 Dragonflies etc. Bees, Wasps, and Ants. Butterflies and 

 Moths. Parasites. Flies and Gnats. Scorpions, Spiders, 

 etc. 



IT was reserved for Dr. Gulia to publish th e 

 first, and as yet, the only standard work on insects 

 found in Malta and Gozo. Mr. Leach in 1832 

 collected numerous specimens, which he sent to 

 the London Zoological Society, but his lamented 

 death from cholera at Genoa prevented the publi- 

 cation of his intended work. In 1857 under the 

 auspices of Sir W. Eeid, who was then Governor 

 of Malta, Dr. Gulia delivered a course of entomo- 

 logical lectures to a class of students at the 

 Palace of St' Antonio, which he afterwards published. 

 These he has most kindly allowed me to use, and 

 from this source the following pages are drawn. 



Three varieties of the Tiger Beetle are met 

 with, of which Oicindela littoralis and C. hybrida 

 love the [sand, whilst C. germanica, which is only 

 half the size of the other two, prefers herbage. 



