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into the king's bench for debt, where he embeUifhed that 

 rL-(idcnce by his talents, and amufed its inhabitants. He 

 xvas, however, allowed to attend evening concerts elfewhere, 

 awended by a -arde du corps. But on thefe occafions, a 

 Jewift lady, his patronefs, carried him in her carnage to the 

 performance, and conduced him fafe back with his attend- 

 ant to his limited relidence ; where, during a part of the 

 time, he had the honour of Dr. Smollot for his neighbour. 



In Scotland he fung at the Edinburgh concerts, and gave 

 IcITons in Tinging ; by which occupation he improved his own 

 talents fo much, that he returned to London a much better 

 finger than when he left it. So true is the obfervation of 

 Ariilotle, that no art or fcience is well learned but. by 

 teaching, when it is neceffary to give reafons for what in 

 private pradlice is done mechanically. 



In Ireland he married a lady of confiderable fortune, who 

 was enciianted by his talents. 



In Italy, whither he carried this lady, he was unmarried, 

 the laws of that country forbidding conjugal union to 

 caftrati. And on his application to the pope for a difpen- 

 fation, it was refiifed ; though the petitioner faid that his 

 reafon for marrying was, tlic opei-ation in his youth not 

 having been completely performed : " why then," fays his 

 holinefs, " let it be done more ctfeAually ;" and he was 

 obliged to feparate himfelf from his tender fpoufc, and fhe to 

 confole herfelf with a more efficient hufband. 



When he quitted the ftage, he employed his whole time in 

 teaching to fing ; had many fcholars, and a good method of 

 inttrudion ; giving to his pupils, in Englifh, a fet of axioms 

 or rules of fludy and prafticc tran Hated from the ItaHan, 

 drawn up, as he faid, by himfelf; but which, after his de- 

 ceafe, were found in the Solfeggi of Aprile. 



Notwithftanding the great number of his fcholars, his 

 income was infufficientto keep him out of debt, or even the 

 king's bench, without the ingenious expedient of becoming 

 a bankrupt, by which he defrauded all his creditors, and 

 died infolvent, being, as has been reported, buiied at the 

 expence of his countrymen, who made a colleftion for that 

 purpofe at the Orange cofFee-houfe. But from better 

 authority, we have been informed that he died at Genoa. 



Tenducci had much profeflional merit ; but as to probity, 

 honour, and ideas of right and wrong, they never feem 

 to have extended further than convenience and perfonal 

 fafety. 



TENDUNCULO, in Geography, a river of Africa, 

 which runs into the Indian fea, S. lat. 19° 20'. 



TENEA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Corinth, on 

 the frontiers of Sicyonia, S. 01 Epicria. It pretended to 

 derive its foundation from the Trojans made prifoners in the 

 ifle of Tenedos, and brought into this country by Aga- 

 memnon. Apollo was much honoured here. 



TENEBRiE, Darkness, in the Rom'i/]} Church, a 

 fervice performed on the Wednefday, Thurfday, and Friday 

 before Eafter, in commemoration of the agony of our 

 Saviour in the garden ; and the darknefs that overfpread the 

 earth at the time of his crucifixion. 



TENEBRIO, in Entomology, a genus of the Coleop- 

 tera order of infefts, the generic charafter of which is, 

 that the antenna are moniliform, with the laft joint rounded ; 

 the thorax plano-convex, margined; the head exferted, and 

 vving-flieaths ftiffifh. 



In the infefts of this genus the body is oblong-oval, and 

 in moft fpecies fomewhat pointed at the extremity. Several 

 fpecies are alfo deftitute of wings. This is a numerous 

 genus, and is divided by Fabricius and others into feveral 

 diftina genera, under the appellations of Pimelia, Bleps, 



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Aturnus, &c. In Gmelin's edition of Linnasus it compre- 

 hends 63 fpecies. The European fpecies are denoted by 

 an afterifc. 



A. Six Jiliform Feelers; anterior Legs formed for digging, 

 palmatc-dentated ; including the Scarita of Fabricius and 

 Pallas. 



Species. 



CoMPLANATUS. Black, with a fubquadrate thorax, 

 and fmooth Ihells or wing-fheaths ; of a laige fize. Found 

 at Cayenne. 



Margixatus. Black, with a fubquadrate thorax ; ful- 

 cated Ihells ; blue margin. Found at Cayenne. 



GiGAXTEUS. Black, with fulcated mandibles, and fmooth 

 (hells. Found in Africa ; nearly allied to the next fpecies, 

 but thrice as large. 



SuBTERRANEU.s. Black, with the fore-part of the head 

 fulcated, and ilriated fhells. 



CvANEUS. Blue, very fmooth ; antennge and feet black. 

 Found in New Holland. 



* FossoR. Pitchy. Found in fand-hills, which it 

 perforates. 



* Cursor. Brown ; oblong thorax ; five ^angles denti- 

 culated. Found as the former. 



Arabs. Black ; ferrated thorax ; antennas and feet tef- 

 taceous. Found in the Eaft. 



MixuTLv-:. Black; thorax margined ; antennje clavated, 

 and feet pitchy. Found in Sweden ; and twice as large in 

 Saxony. 



Coli,aris. Black, with Ihells punftate-ftriated, and 

 head brown ; antennx and feet pitchy ; the anterior fpinous. 

 Found at Berlin. 



Bucephalus. Wholly biown, pundlated ; eyes black. 

 Found in India. 



B. With unequal filiform Feelers. 



Atratus. Wholly black, fmooth. Found in Egypt. 



C. With four Feelers ; the anterior fulclavatc ; the poflerior 

 filiform ; the Tenebriones of Fabricius, and Mylarides of 

 Pallas. 



Laminatus. Black; thorax fubquadrate, fmooth ; Ihells 

 fulcated ; anterior legs incurvated at the apex, and ferru- 

 ginous lamina acute. Found in India ; the largeft of the 

 genus. 



GiGAS. Black ; (hell ftriated ; thorax fmooth. Found 

 in Surinam. 



PuNCTATULUS. Black ; thorax quadrate ; margin fub- 

 denticulate ; (hells ftriate-punftated. Found in India ; of 

 a large lize. 



Serratus. Black, fmooth ; fhells ftriated ; pofterior 

 legs ilriated. Found in Sierra Leone. 



* MoLiTOR. Wholly black ; thighs anterior thicker : — 

 an infeft often feen in houfes, one of the fmaller kinds, pro- 

 ceeding from a larva commonly known by the name of meal- 

 worm, from its being fo frequently found in flour, &c. ; 

 it is of a yeUowi(h-white colour, aboTJt an inch long, (lender- 

 bodied, and of a highly poli(hed furface, and is confidered 

 as the favourite food of the nightingale, in its captive (late, 

 and faid to remain two years before it changes into a 

 cliryfalis. 



LuRiDUS. Black, with brown feet. Found in Brafil. 

 Chalybeus. Violet, with feet and antennae pitchy. 

 Found in Guinea. 



Maujiitanicus. Black, beneath pitchy; margins of 



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