[433] See Kirby, ubi supr. 253.—More than a hundred species of the Capricorn tribe, many of them nondescripts, were collected in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro by Captain Hancock, of the Foudroyant.
[434] In Linn. Trans. x. 399.
[435] Syst. Nat. 565. 2.
[436] Smith's Introduction to Botany, Pref. xv.
[437] Afzelius in Linn. Trans. iv. 261.
[438] Linn. Trans. x. 403.
[439] Kirby, Mon. Ap. Ang. i. 152-194. Latreille, Gen. iv. 161—.
[440] In order to ascertain how far pure sea water is essential to this insect, and consequently what danger exists of its being introduced into the woodwork of our docks and piers communicating with our salt-water rivers, as at Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Ipswich, &c., where it might be far more injurious than even on the coast, I have, since December 15th 1815, when Mr. Lutwidge was so kind as to furnish me with a piece of oak full of the insects in a living state, poured a not very strong solution of common salt over the wood, every other day, so as to keep the insects constantly wet. On examining it this day (Feb. 5th 1816) I found them alive; and, what seems to prove them in as good health as in their natural habitat, numbers have established themselves in a piece of fir-wood which I nailed to the oak, and have in this short interval, and in winter too, bored many cells in it.
[442] Reaum. iii. 270.