[413] Ceylon, 307.
[414] Voyage, &c. 72.
[415] Williamson's East India Vade Mecum.
[416] Calcutta, a Poem, 85.
[417] Ptinus piceus, Marsh.
[418] On examining ninety-two chests of opium, part of the cargo saved from the Charlton, previously to reshipping them from Chittagong for China, thirteen were found to be full of white ants, which had almost wholly devoured the opium. Article from Chittagong, Nov. 1812, in one of the Newspapers, July 31, 1813.
[419] Ptinus rubellus, Marsh.
[420] Bibl. Nat. i. 125. b. 126. a.
[421] Sir Geo. Staunton's Voy. 8vo. 189.
[422] Kerr in Philos. Trans. 1781.