14 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



St ickhouse's remarks Capable of being tamed. 



much force that its strokes were impressed and 

 visible in the exterior coat of the sedge, for a 

 space equal to that of a silver penny. Mr. 

 Staekhouse took this insect and put it into a box. 

 On the following day he opentd the box, and 

 set it in the sun. It seemed very brisk, and 

 crept about with great activity on the bits of 

 sedge and rotten wood, till at last, gemng to the 

 end of the pieces, it extended its wings, and was 

 about to take leave; he shut down the lid, when 

 it withdrew them and remained quiet. He kept 

 it by him about a fortnight. 



Strange as it may appear, this little animal is 

 capable of being tamed. Dr. Derham kept a 

 male and female together in a box for about 

 three weeks; and, by imitating their noise (beat- 

 ing with his nail, or the point of a pen, on a 

 table or board), he made them beat whenever he 

 pleased, and they not only answered very readily, 

 but even continued their beatings as long as re- 

 quired. At the end of this time one of them 

 died, soon after which the other gnawed its way 

 out and escaped. 



THE DEATH-WATCH TERMES. 



THIS insect, which is sometimes mistaken 

 for the ptinus just mentioned, is of a very 

 different tribe, and about a tenth of an inch 

 long. At first sight it has greatly the appeay- 







