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clined to look upon as a rash and unjustifiable assertion on 

 the part of Heifer. There can be little doubt (and the 

 above is an additional example) that the Carabidse of this 

 Island have much resemblance to those of Burmah, still my 

 long experience in it has not furnished me with any instances 

 of any of them living vpon trees, with the exception of the Tri- 

 condyla?, Collyres and certain Cicindelae. The Casnonias and 

 Ophionese are in the habit of ascending grasses and low herbs, 

 and certain Lebiidaa and g. Catascopus live under the bark of 

 trees — this is all. As to the insect described above, although 

 it appears to adapt itself with facility to a variety of physical 

 circumstances, and although it takes occasionally to its wings 

 and flies into houses in the evening, I have never found it 

 upon trees. 



