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and a few other common names, are all that 

 our language fupplies. It would, therefore, be 

 in vain to enumerate the immenfe variety of ge- 

 nera and fpecies to any perfon unfkilled in the 

 fcience of entomology : we may, however, give 

 directions under general names, where to find 

 and how to catch each kind, (b) 



L The Coleoptera (c), or firft great clafs of 

 infects, including beetles, are found in and un- 

 der the dung (d) of animals, efpecially of cows, 

 horfes, and fheep : many of them make holes 

 under the dung three or four inches deep ; it 

 will therefore be neceffary to have an iron fpade 

 to dig them out, when in fearch of this tribe of 

 infects. 



Some (e) are found in rotten and half de- 

 cayed wood, and under the decayed bark of 

 trees ; on the carcafes (f) of animals that have 

 been dead four or five days; on moift bones 

 that have been gnawed by dogs or other ani- 

 mals; on flowers having a foetid fmell ; and on 

 feveral kinds of fungous fubftances, particularly 



the 



(b) Vide SchoefFer. Elementa Entomologica. Curtis's ac- 

 curate inftructions for collecting and preferving infects, and 

 his introduction to the knowledge of infects tranflated from 

 the Fundamenta Entomologiae of Linnaeus, Amasn. Acad, 

 v. 7. 



{e) Coleoptsra, from y,o*eos, a meath, and tzlepov, a wing, are 

 fuch infects as have cruftaceous Elytra, or (hells, which mut 

 together, and, form a longitudinal future down to the back of 

 the infect, as the beetle, Bupreftris ignita, fig. 1 . 



(dj Scarabsus, chafer. Dermeftes, leather-eater. Hitter, 

 mimick-beetle. Staphylinus, rove-beetle. (e) Lucanus, ftag- 

 beetle. Cerambyx, capricorn-beetle, {fj Hiller. Silpha, car- 

 rion-beetle, 



' ' ii'J Byrrhus, 



( 



