[423] Reaum. iii. 266.
[424] Ibid. 59.
[425] Reaum. iii. 42.
[426] Ibid. 257.
[427] Amœn. Acad. iii. 346.
[428] Kirby in Linn. Trans. v. 250.
[429] Curculio lignarius, Marsh. Rhinosimus ruficollis, Latr.
[430] The species of the genus Dorcadion separated from Lamia are discovered to live upon the roots of grass.
[431] The larva of a Callidium (which Dr. Leach has discovered to be C. Bajulus) sometimes does material injury to the wood-work of the roofs of houses in London, piercing in every direction the fir-rafters, and, when arrived at the perfect state, making its way out even through sheets of lead one-sixth of an inch thick, when they happen to have been nailed upon the rafter in which it has assumed its final metamorphosis. I am indebted to the kindness of Sir Joseph Banks for a specimen of such a sheet of lead, which, though only eight inches long and four broad, is thus pierced with twelve oval holes, of some of which the longest diameter is a quarter of an inch! Mr. Charles Miller first discovered lead in the stomach of the larva of this insect.
[432] P. 310.