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the rotten and rnoft {linking : others (g) may be 

 found in a morning about the bottoms of per- 

 pendicular rocks and fand banks, and alfo upon 

 the flowers of trees and herbaceous plants. 



Many kinds (h) may be caught in rivers, lakes, 

 and {landing pools, b}' means of a thread net, 

 with fmall mefhes, on a round wire hoop, fixed 

 at the end of a long pole. 



In the middle of the day, when the fun {nines 

 hot, [i] fome are to be feen on plants and flowers, 

 blighted trees and fhrubs ; others (k) in moift 

 meadows are beft difcovered at night, by the 

 mining light which they emit. 



A great variety (/) fit clofe on the leaves of 

 plants, particularly of the burdock, elecampane, 

 coltsfoot, dock, thiftle, and the like; or feed on 

 different kinds of tender herbs (m). 



Numbers (n) may be found in houfes, dark 

 cellars, damp pits, caves, and fubterraneous 

 paffages, or on umbelliferous flowers (o), on the 

 trunks as well as the leaves of trees ; in timber- 

 yards, and in the holes of decayed wood. 



Some (p) inhabit wild commons, the margins 

 of pools, marflies, and rivulets; and are likewife 

 feen creeping on flags, reeds, and all kinds of 

 water-plants. 



Multitudes (q) live under {tones, mofs, rub- 

 bifih, and wrecks near the fhores of lakes and 



- IgJ Byrrhus, enrculio, *wee<vil. Bruchus, feed-beetle, {h) 

 Gyrinus, nvhirl-beetle. Dytifcus, water- beetle. (/*) Coccinella, 

 lady-fly. Bupreftis, burn-co<w. Chryfomela, golden honey-beetle. 

 Cantharis, foft-nxiinged beetle. Elater, fpring-beetle. Necyda- 

 lis, clipt-nvinged beetle, (k) Lampyris, glo<w-nx)orm. (I) Caf- 

 "fide, tortoife-beetle. (m) Meloa, blifter^beetle. («) Tenebrio, 

 ftinking-beetle. (o) Cerambyx, Ptinus. (p) Leptura, woood- 

 bseth* Cicindela, glofjy beetle* (q) Carabus, ground-beetle. 



rivers. 



