[366] De Geer, i. 322—.
[367] Ins. Surinam. t. viii. xxiii. xxxii.
[368] I. iv. 122.
[369] Reaum. ii. 155. t. vii. f. 4-7.
[370] Lewin's Prodromus.
[371] De Geer, i. 149—.
[372] Mr. MacLeay relates to me, from the communications of Mr. E. Forster, the following particulars respecting the history of Mutilla coccinea, which from this account appears to be one of the most redoubtable of stinging insects. The females are most plentiful in Maryland in the months of July and August, but are never very numerous. They are very active, and have been observed to take flies by surprise. A person stung by one of them lost his senses in five minutes, and was so ill for several days that his life was despaired of.
[373] Hedcorne near Sittingbourne.
[374] Dr. Long in Ray's Letters, 370.
[375] Lesser L. i. 263. Note ‡.