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1888, THE BEETLE, ZOPHEEUS MEXICANUS SOL., CUTTING METAL. Ill N. Y. 



Microscopical Soc, v. 4, no. 3, July, p. 145-147, pi. 13-14. 



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1891. ANOTHEB LEAD-BOEING INSECT. In U. S. Dept. Agi'., Div. Eut., In- 

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(26) [Riley, C. V.] 



1891. LEAD-BOEING INSECTS. Ill U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Insect Life, 

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(27) BouviEE, E. L. 



1896. UN CABLE tel:^geaphique attaque par les teemites. In C. R. 

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1900. E:g;visiON des coleopteees de la famille des bosteychides. 4* Me- 

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Page 591, footnote (1) : ScoMcia pustulata is recorded as boring in gas 

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(30) Hesketh, John. 



1904. A NEW danger to lead-coveeed aeriai cables. In Trans. Internat. 

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Damage by Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera. 



(31) Keancher, O.. 



1904. niptus hololeucus ealderm., der messingkaeer. In Insekten- 

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(32) [Anonymous.] 



1904. telephone lead-covered cables attacked by an insect. in elec- 



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(33) [SCHWARZ, E. A.] 



1905. BRIEF NOTE. In Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v. 7, 1904, p. 24. 



Niptus liololeuciis Fald., according to Prof. J. Fletcher, is a great 

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(34) Mjoberg, Eric 



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Page 67 : According to Ewerts in Amsterdam this beetle spoiled the 

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(35) Scientific Ameeican, 



1907. insects that desteoy metal. Sci. Amer., v. 97, no. 10, p. 173. 



Sept. 7. 



