Excerpt from United States of Brazil: A Geographical Sketch, With Special Reference to Economic Conditions and Prospects of Future Development In insects there is an immense variety, as may be seen from the fact that a single family (longicornes) has 489 species native to Brazil. The butterflies are unsurpassed for beauty, and the bees furnish a delicious honey. The ants, previous to the introduction of ant powders, were the plague of the agriculturists; along the coast and in the marshes abound spiders, mosquitoes, and other insects of this class, although they are far from being as numerous and poisonous as those of other tropical regions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.