48 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY, 



again, as foon as the fouth wind, which firft brought them, fets 

 in again. 



C. Linnseus, in his Fauna Suecica, p. 32,6. takes notice of a 

 fort of Flies, which are very common in Finmark : Nigra eft, 

 oculi rubent, fub his linea alba, abdomen nigro & incarno tefle- 

 latum ; thorax tribus canis lineis dijFert a prsecedente, quod 

 dimidio minor, quod non uti prior fub volatu bombos edat, quod 

 non ita putrida quserat, quodque aliter generetur. Sola magni- 

 tudo in facie externa diftin&am reddit, Vix eandem fpeciem cre*- 

 derem. In Finmarchia Norvegke integras domos fere replet *. 



SECT. X. 



Wood-ike. Wood-lice are common here as in other places ; a well-known 

 plague, and particularly if they have their origin in fir-wood, 

 of which mod; houfes are built j but which trees, according to 

 their kinds, yield them or not, (for there is a difference); the 

 farmers can diftinguifh whether they will fwarm, as fbon as they 

 cut into the wood. 



Fleas. A fort of fmall black Infects, called Frolic, are feen in Norway, 



hopping about in the grafs like Fleas 5 * and there are alio fome 

 other nearly of the fame fhape, but not leaping or jumping : . 

 thefe laft keep upon the leaves of feveral trees, and are in the 

 beginning green, but are afterwards of a reddifh white : thefe 

 find their food there, and they curioufly carve and pierce the 

 leaves of feveral trees, and curl and roll them up, to put their 

 furry web between the two membranes, and lay their eggs. 



Beetles. Beetles j Skarn Bafler, called here Tordiveler, are of ' feveral 



forts f; and amongft them we have fome, which, from their horned 

 heads, are called Flyvende, Flying-ftags, or Stag-horn'd Beetles : 

 thefe are found in the woods, and particularly on oak-trees, and 

 ferve, with other Infects, for food for birds. 



Ants. Ants we have of two forts, with and without wings, and we 



have a red, as well as a dark brown one : they are found here in 

 the fir-woods in vaft quantities ||. There is is fometimes found 



*The fpecies thus defcribed by Linnaeus is no other than our common Houfe-fiy, 

 ■f- This fort is mentioned by Jo. Suammerdam, in Hiffc. Infector. p. 104, fequ. He 

 names fix large, 32 middling, and 127 fmaller fpecies •, but fuch a detail concerning 

 the Norvegian kinds in particular, is not to be expected here, either of thefe or other 

 Infects, tho' I could wifh fomebody elfe would undertake it ; perhaps there might be 

 found a great many fpecies in Norway, unknown to other places. 



|| Some are of opinion, that the wings are only the diftinction of the he-kind. 

 Mares alatos dixi, fceminas maximas pennatas, neutras minimas impennes. Neutra 

 cohabitant per annum, acervofque exftruunt. Mares & fceminas quam prim urn 

 prodeunt generant ovaque deponunt. Mox his peractis, expelluntur ambo a neutris. 

 C. Linnaeus Fauna Suec. p. 306. 



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