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These brief notes, added to the article on page 186, may be regarded 
giving a degree of completeness to the history of the piao Beetle, 
as it is thus pursued from the egg to the imago. — S. LOCKW 
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establishing the  Tegularity of their periodical appearance. 
KıTE, West Town, Chester Co unty, Pa. 
Museum mare — Every naturalist dreads the presence of we 
logical rogues whose portraits are here exhibited. The ugly, 
sidious larva, which so aiy hides in the body of the dri test pre- 
stuffed specimen it consumes, can be kept out only prae ph i 
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