Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions

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Pinkerton’s Voy. and Trav., xiii. 108. A beetle, insinuating itself in the ear of Captain Speke when in Central Africa, caused him the greatest pain imaginable. It was six or seven months before all the pieces of it were extracted.—Blackwood’s Mag., Sept. 1859. Barth’s Central Africa, ii. 91, note.

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