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der. The Elater, if laid on its Back, 

 has a Power of Ikipping to a confiderable 

 Diftance. Some of them are black, others 

 of a changeable Brafs Colour, ^c. 



Staphilini^ are a large and long black 

 Beetle, with (lender beaded Antenna, 

 the exterior Wings dimidiated and Ihorr, 

 a iharp Fork at its Tail, and tvv^o Veficles 

 juft above it, the Body almofl naked, and 

 is nimble, and very voracious. The 

 brown Staphiiinus with blue Wings is a 

 curious Infedl a Number of them are 

 black, but diftinguiflied one from the 

 other, either by the Legs, or by the Co- 

 lour of the interior Wings. 



Blatta^ Mill Beetles, have long flen- 

 der Antennae in continual Motion, and 

 ufually two Spines at the Tail : The 

 Males have Wings, and are fmaller than 

 the Fem.ales, The yellow Blatta, a Na- 

 tive of the Northern Countries, where it 

 feeds on the dried Fifh, and a very large 

 Kind from Jamaica^ are of this Species. 



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