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also more especially in America, that they are found. Ma- 

 demoiselle de Merian says that the larva of the species, which 

 she figures, feeds on the roots of the patata. The perfect 

 insect is not rare in sugar plantations.* 



* See Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. II. p. 255 ; Web. Observ. Entom. ; Palis 

 de Beauv. Insect. d'Afr. et d'Amer. ; Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect. II. 

 p, 156, and Schoenh. Synon. Insect. I. iii. p. 331, and Append, p. 145, 



144. 



