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oval Clypeits or fhield, on the head a fhort 

 blunt horn, and a gibbous, or hump-backed 

 Thorax, or Corfelet. This beetle is one 

 of the bigger fort here. I found here and 

 there holes on the hills, which were fo 

 wide that I could put my finger into them. 

 On digging them up I always found thefe 

 beetles lying at the bottom, about five in- 

 ches under ground. Sometimes there were 

 fhort whitifh worms, about as thick as 

 one's finger, which lay with the beetles ; 

 and perhaps they were related to them. 

 There were likewife other infects in fuch 

 holes, as, a black cricket (Gryllus cam- 

 pejlris) ? fpiders, earth-beetles (Carabi), 

 and others. This beetle had a fcent exactly 

 like the Irifolium meiilotus ccerulea, or the 

 blue melilot. It was entirely covered with 

 oblong pale ticks (AcariJ. Its feet were as 

 ftrong as thofe of the common Dung-chaf- 

 fer ( Scarabceus jiercorarius) . 



April the 4th. A Cicindela, or mining 

 beetle, with a gold-green head, thorax* 

 and feet, and a blue green abdomen or 

 belly, flew every where about the fields, 

 and was hunting other infects. It is very 

 common in North America, and feems to 

 be a mere variety of the Cicindela cam- 

 pejlris. 



Cimex lacu/lris, a kind of Water -bugs 4 



5 hopped 



