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  • They will be referred to frequently in these Notes, [p. Ill] [33] Flashman is almost certainly referring to the First Sikh War of 1845-6 and the China War of 1860, which he has described in Flashman and the Mountain of Light and Flashman and the Dragon, [p. 111] [34] The yellow scorpions of the genus Buthus are found in north-east Africa and the Sahara.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • It consists of some twenty-four specimens of _Buthus occitanus_, the large White

    The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • _Buthus occitanus_ (_see_ Languedocian Scorpion), 402

    The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • (two species of Euphorberia) more highly organized than Pauropus, and a carboniferous scorpion (Buthus?) closely resembling a species now living in California, together with another scorpion-like animal, Mazonia

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

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