Note 700 — LETTER XXV.
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De Geer, iv. 63.—These insects, which were chiefly Brachyptera L., Aphodii, spiders, caterpillars, but particularly the larvæ of Telephorus fuscus, fell in such abundance that they might have been taken from the snow by handfuls.—Other showers of insects which have been recorded, as that in Hungary, 20th November 1672 (Ephem. Nat. Curios. 1673. 80.), and one mentioned in the newspapers of July 2d, 1810, to have fallen in France the January preceding, accompanied by a shower of red snow, may evidently be explained in the same manner.