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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 6 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

The Teredo navalis of Linnæus, not an insect, but one of the mollusks. This is the same creature that is mentioned in B. xvi. c. 80; but that spoken of in B. viii. c. 74, must have been a land insect.

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