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an animal that may in some measure be 

 tamed ; at least it may be so far familiarised 

 as to be made to beat occasionally, by taking 

 it out of its confinement, and beating on a 

 table or board, when it will readily answer 

 the noise, and will continue to beat as often 

 as required. Dr. Derham had two Death- 

 watches, a male and a female, which he kept 

 alive in a box for several months ; and could 

 bring one of them to beat whenever he 

 pleased by imitating its beating. 



We must be careful not to confound this 

 animal, which is the real Death-watch, of the 

 \'ulgar emphatically so called, with a much 

 smaller insect, of a very different genus, which 

 makes a sound like the ticking of a watch, 

 and continues it for a long time without in- 

 termission. It belongs to a totally different 

 order, and is the Termes Pulsatorium of 

 Linnaeus. — Naturalist's Miscellany. 



Earwig. — Forficula. 



The Forficula Auricularia^ or common 

 Earwig, is an insect so familiarly known, 

 that a formal description might seem unne- 



