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rivers. Thefe are found alfo in bogs, marines, 

 moift places, pits, and holes of the earth, on 

 flems of trees; and in an evening they crawl 

 plentifully along path-ways after a fhower of 

 rain. 



Some (r) may be difcovered in the hollow 

 jftems of decayed umbelliferous plants, and on 

 many forts of flowers and fruits. 



II. Another clafs (5) of infects are found a- 

 bout (t) bake-houfes, corn-mills, in Chips, and in 

 all places where meal is kept ; on grafs (u) t and 

 all kinds of field herbage. Some (y) of thefe 

 frequent riyers, lakes and Handing pools. 



III. Butterflies and moths make another great 

 divifion (to). In the day, when the fun is warm, 

 butterflies {x) are feen on many forts of trees, 

 fhrubs, plants, and flowers. Moths (y) may be 

 feen in the day-time, fitting on walls, pales, 

 trunks of trees, in fhades, out-houfes, dry holes, 

 and crevices * ; on fine evenings they fly about 



the 



f r) Fornxula, carnjoig. 



(s) Hemiptera, from •nyt.iav, half, and zfkpov, a wing, have 

 their upper wings ufually half cruftaceous, and half membra- 

 naceous, not divided by a longitudinal future, but incum- 

 bent on each other, as the Cimex, fig. 2. (fj Blatta, cockroach, 

 (u) Mantis, camel cricket. Gryllus, locuft. Fulgora, cicada, 

 fiep-locuft. Cimex, bug. {y) Notonecla, boat-fly. Nepa, 

 njuater-fcorpion. 



(<w) Lepidoptera, from fonts, a fcale, and tslepov, a wing, 

 are infecls having four wings, covered with fine fcales in the 

 form of powder or meal, as in the butterfly, Papilio Antiopa, 

 fe- 3- ( x ) Papilio. butterfly, (y) Phalaena, moth. 

 " t The bell method to kill moths, when Handing, or fitting on 



walls 



