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[151.] Donovan, Ins. of India, p. 5.

[152.] Donovan, Ins. of China, p. 13.

[153.] Travels, i. 384.

[154.] Ibid., i. 331.

[155.] Cuvier, An. King.—Ins., i. 356.

[156.] Introd., i. 156.

[157.] Pliny, xxx. 4; Holland, ii. 377. E.

[158.] Med. Dict.

[159.] Ibid.

[160.] Peruvians travel by the light of the Cucujus Peruvianus.—See Kirby’s Wond. Museum, ii. 151.