[1464] Essai Elément. de Géograph. Botan. 62.

[1465] Wisdom of God, &c. 2d edit. 9.

[1466] Hor. Entomolog. 469. This calculation includes the Crustacea.

[1467] It has lately been discovered that the larva of Drilus flavescens, a beetle, feeds upon the common snail. (Bulletin des Scienc. Nat. 1824. iii. 297; v. 110; vi. 221.) I have found an Acarus on the same animal.

[1468] See above, p. [219]—.

[1469] We employ this term, because the more common one, herbivorous, does not properly include devourers of timber, fungi, &c.

[1470] If we consider the number of species of Acari, Nirmi, Poduræ, and Araneidæ, this proportion will appear moderate.

[1471] Hor. Entomolog. 48.

[1472] Philos. Entomolog. ix. § 20.

[1473] Géograph. Génér. des Ins. 5.