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[740.] Kirby’s Wond. Museum, vi. 260–2, at length.

[741.] Livy, B. 34, c. 10.

[742.] Ibid., B. 40, c. 19.

[743.] Ibid., B. 43, c. 13.

[744.] Brown’s Book of Butterflies, i. 126.

[745.] Annales, p. 15.

[746.] Ibid.

[747.] Holling., i. 449. Graft., i. 37. Fabyan, p. 17.

[748.] Howitt’s North. Literat., i. 187.

[749.] Bucke on Nature, i. 277.