[ 2 ] 



wafps* and a few other common names, are afi 

 that our language fupplies. It would, there- 

 fore, be in vain to enumerate the immenfe 

 variety of genera 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 (r), or firft great clafs of 

 infects, including beetles, are found in and un- 

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

 horfes, and (heep : 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 decayed 

 wood, and under the decayed bark of trees ; 

 on the carcafes (/) of animals that have been 

 dead four or five days on moift bones that have 

 been gnawed by dogs or other animals on 

 flowers having a foetid fmell; and on feveral 

 kinds of fungous iubftances, particularly the 



rotten 



(b) Vide Schoeffer. Elementa Entomologies. Curtis's 

 accurate inductions for colle&ing and preferving infects, 

 and his introduction to the knowledge of infects, tranfiated 

 from the Fundamenta Entomologiae of Linnaeus. Amsen. 

 Acad. v. 7. 



(c) Coleoptera, from >coaso<, a meath„ and vrjzpov, a 

 wing, are fuch infects as have cruftaeeous Elytra, or fhells, 

 which fhut together, and form a longitudinal future down 

 the back of the infect, as the beetle, Bupreftris ignita r 

 %• 1. 



(d) Scarabzeus, chafer. Dermefles, leather-eater. Hifter, 

 mimkk-beetle. Staphylinus, rove-beetle, (e) Lucanus, fiag- 

 beetle. Cerambyx, capricorn-beetle. Dermeites. (/) Hiiter. 

 Silpha, carrion-beetle. Staphylinus. 



(i) Byrrhus, 



