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rotten arid moft ftinking: 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 ftanding pools, by means of a thread 

 net, with fmall memes* on a round wire hoopi 

 fixed at the end of a long pole. 



In the middle of the day, when the fun mines 

 hot, fome (/) are to be feen on plants and flowers, 

 blighted trees and ihrubs 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 (ft) may be found in houfes, dark 

 cellars, damp pits, caves, and fubterraneous 

 palfagesj 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, marines, and rivulets ; and are like- 

 wife feen creeping on flags, reeds, and all kinds 

 of water-plants. 



Multitudes (q) live under {tones, mofs, 

 rubbifh, and wrecks near the mores of lakes 



(g) Byrrhus, curculio, weevil. Bruchus, feed-beetle, (b) 

 Gyrinus, whirl- beetle. Dytifcus, water-beetle, (i) Cocci- 

 hella, lady-fly. Bupreftis, bum-cow. Chryfomela, golden* 

 honey-beetle. Cantharis, foft-winged-beetle. Elater, fpring* 

 beetle. Necydalis, clipt-winged-beetle. {k) Lampyns, 

 glow-worm. (I) Caffida, tortoife-beetle. (m) Mdoe, blif 

 ter-beetle. {n) Tenebrio, jlinking-beetle* (o) Cerambyx, 

 Ptinus. (/) Leptura, wood-beetle. Cicindela, glojfy -beetle* 

 (^) Carabus,, ground-beetle. 



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