' Oh ! I do fear thee, Claudio ; and I quake. 

 Lest thou a feverous life should 'at entertain. 

 And six or seven winters more respect 

 Than a perpetual honour." 



MEA80RE FOR MEA30RE, ACT lil. SC. I. 



After mentioning the best-known individual of 

 all those included under the term " beetles," I now 

 proceed to notice one of the most important divisions 

 of the insects belonging to the same order (Coleo- 

 pteraj . I allude to those which, instead of subsisting 

 on decayed vegetable and animal substances, are 

 predaceous in their habits, and live on animal food 

 (AdephagaJ . The principal part of their subsistence 



