( 8j ) 
to the fize of the animal. I hâve 
met with this înfedl in woods, but 
it is not common. 
The larvæ of fome live in damp 
places under ground among r ubbiih ; 
of others, in flour and different 
kinds of food, where they perform 
their metamorphofis. The perfedt 
înfedls are very troubleforne in 
houfes, eating bread, méat, &c. 
they precipitately avoid the light, 
refort in troops in dark damp cel- 
lars, where putrefaélion allures and 
nouriflies them. They are ail of 
a very dark gloomy appearance, 
from which circumllance they bear 
the name. 
cet infedle aux bois, mais il n*eft 
pas commun. 
Les larves de quelques uns vivent 
dans des endroits humides fous terre 
au milieu des ordures; d’autres 
dans la farine et dans differentes 
fortes de vivres où elles fabiffent 
leurs métamorphofes. Les infeéles_ 
parfaits font très incommodes dans 
les maifons, où il dévorent le pain, 
la farine, &c. Il fuient la lumière, 
s’attroupent dans les fouterrains 
obfcurs & humides, où la pourri- 
ture les attire ôc les nourrit. Ils 
font tous d’une apparance fombre 
& ténébreufe circonflance de la* 
quelle ils tirent leur nom. 
' GE NUS 27. MELOE. Tab. VII. 
CHARACTER GENERIS. 
Antennæ moniliformes artîculo ultimo ovato. Thorax fubrotundus. 
Elytra mollia flexilia, caput inflexum, Linn. fyll. nat. p. 679. 
27th GENUS. The BLOSSOM-EATER. PI. VII. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS. 
The antennæ are moniliform; but the laft articulation is in this genus 
. of an oblong oval form. The thorax is roundifh. The elytra are foft 
and flexible. The head is infleded and gibbous. 
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