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Melton-Mowbray

a town of Leicestershire, England, in the center of a great hunting district; on the Eye river near its junction with the Wreak, 104 miles N. N. W. of London; it has a fine cruciform church, mainly Early English; and is famous for its manufactures of pork pies and Stilton cheese. Near the town in February, 1644, a severe engagement took place between parties of royalvarious species, whence their popular ist and parliamentary troops, resulting in name bee lice. The active six-footed larva changes into a fleshy cylindrical grub with less aborted legs and stronger jaws than the corresponding stage of Sitaris.

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