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GENUS 27.—MELOE BLOSSOM-EATER. 
Many of them want wings. The larvae feed chiefly 
on the leaves of plants ; on which the com pleat in- 
feds are likewife to be met with. 
Aleloe Profcarabarus 
Black—it makes its abode on the fide of wet roads, 
and in woods ; its food, infeds, violet leaves, and deli¬ 
cate herbs. There oozes from its body a fat unftuous 
matter, of an agreeable fmell. Oil, in which thefe in- 
feds have been infufed is uied medicinally. Its eggs 
are depofitedin the ground; the larvae feed chiefly on 
the leaves of plants. 
Aleloe veficatorius , commonly called Cantharis, or 
Spanifh Fly, is foreign. 
GENUS 28 .—MORDELLA NI 3 BLER. 
The larvae are unknown. 
The perfed infed is found upon flowers. 
GENUS 29.—STAPHILINUS. 
The ftaphilini are voracious, devouring every 
kind of weaker infeds, and even their own fpecies. 
Some of them are found upon flowers ; but they 
chiefly inhabit the dung of cows : their larvae can 
hardly be diflinguifhed from them, and live in humid 
places under ground; fome call them rove-beetles. 
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