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in this department: befides, we were perfuaded that Mauper- 
tuis had, from a fort of oftentation, beftowed an importance on 
an objedl which it was not worth the trouble of going to fee. 
The Ruffians had penetrated as far as Kengis. 
In the courfe of this journey we colle&ed the following plants 
in flower: 
Casraflium vifcofum Pinguicula vulgaris 
Caeraftium alpinum Myrica gale 
Among the infers were the following: 
Corambyx mordax Leptura interrogation^* 
Corambyx inquifitor Cantharis pe&inicornis 
Chryfomela quadripun&ata Papilio antiopa 
Chryfomela coccinea Cicindela reparia 
Chryfomela Lapponica Silpha atrata 
Chryfomela asnea Tineas varias 
* The leptura is very common in this country, and generally lies concealed in 
the corol of the Trollius Europceus , Linn. Almoft each flower had a leptura, and 
pften two, in the attitude of generation. 
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