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OF JAMAICA. 







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holding one (a) between their fingers, and waving it up and down, fo that it may 

 be fecn by others, who, taking it for Tome of their own kind, fly directly towards 

 it, and pitch upon the hand, if they do not difcover the deceit before they come 

 too near. Thefe infects are very common in Jamaica, but they keep moftly in the 

 mountains and inland parts: they are fo drowiy and torpid by day, that it is a 

 difficult m.stter to make them mew any figns of life; and, if they do, it is only to 

 fall into the fame ftate immediately after; yet, while they hold awake, they arc 

 luminous, tho' they recover the uiual vigour only with the night. 



TORFICULA i* Minor fufca capite de- 7 „, , „ , ^ 



brello f The imaller brown Ear-wick. 



This infecl is not uncommon in pantries and ground-cellers in Jamaica: itfel- 

 dom exceeds feven-tenths of an inch in length. 





b 



BLATTA i. Minor fat i da, appendicibus cauda Ion- 7 The long- tailed Cock- 



gioribus erectis arcuatis. \ roach. 



Tho' this infect be pretty common on board mod of the {hips that trade to Ja- 

 maica, I have not oblerved many of them afhore : they are rather more dilagreea- 

 ble and loathfome than the larger forts. 



BLATTA 2. Rufefc ens major, elitris fubmembrana- 



ceis nitentibus t cruribus hirfutis. J> The Cock-Roach 



Blatta. Cat. App. t. 10. 



Thefe are the m oft loathfome infects in America: they are very flat, and creep 

 into every cheft and drawer, where they find the lead crevice; but it is remarked 

 they do not touch filks of any kind, though they gnaw all manner of woollen 

 cloaths, efpecially thofe that have been dulled with powder. This creature throws 

 off its outward coat very frequently, and appears quite frefli and young after every 

 change. It lays its eggs feparately ; they are of an oblong form, rounded, and 

 moderately edged on one fide : they are very large in proportion to the infect, and 

 commonly found flicking to cloaths, timbers, Sfc. 



BLATTA 3. Minor fufca tranfuerft jlriata, alis 



minoribus. 

 Blatta. Cat App. t. io* 



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The Wood-Dig 



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This infect is neither fo troublefome nor fo difagreeable as the foregoing : it d _ 

 frequently into foft pieces of timber, where it keeps a throbbing noife, not un- 

 like our death-watches in Europe, 



MANTIS 1. Cor pore antennis & pedibus lon7ij]i-\ « LJ ,i. .„ TT r 



L- i*~ vr v ^ . r r The Sp am fa-Hot ie. 



mis tenuijfimijque. Tab. 42. f. 5. 3 r J 



This creature is eafily diftinguifhed from all other infects by its flender make, 

 and the length of all its limbs. The body is feldom lefs than fix inches long, pretty 

 even, and not above one-eighth of an inch in diameter. The feelers and legs are 

 very flender, and feldom lefs than four inches in length. , 



MANTIS 2. Alata iriridis, corpore bre- 7 The Leaf-Fly of Edwards. 



vion. 



t. 109 



This is much (horter than the foregoing, and winged; but it is much of the 

 fame make otherways. 



(a) In cafe they do not catch one of the fpecies readily, they take a fired ftick, or a candle, and 



Urave it up and down inftead of a fly. 



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