THE 



BEATING PTINUS, 



OR 



DEATH-WATCH. 



Generic Character, 



Antenna filiform ; the laft joints larger than the 

 others. 



Thorax roundifh, immarginated, receiving the 

 head. 



Specific Character, &c. 



Dulky and fomewhat hairy PTINUS, with irre- 

 . gular grey-brown fpots. 



THE DEATH-WATCH. 



Phil Tranf. vol. 20. p. 376. vol. 22. p. 832. 



Amongft the popular fuperftitions which the almoft 

 general illumination of the prefent century has not 

 been able to obliterate, the dread of the Death-watch 

 may well be confidered as one of the mod predomi- 

 nant; which, though nothing more than a fmall infect, 

 ftill continues to difturb the habitations of rural tran- 

 quillity with groundless fears and abfurd apprehenfions. 



