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Experiment on an earwig. — I have remarked that the earwig 

 is very unwilling to expand its beautiful and delicate wings, probably 

 from the fear of their being accidentally injured. I placed one, 

 some time since, upon a piece of cork floating in the centre of a 

 basin of water, but still it was not inclined to effect its escape by 

 flight, but preferred swimming to the sides of the basin, which it 

 tried ineffectually to climb. Having made several attempts at this, 

 and perhaps finding itself exhausted, and likely to be drowned, it 

 made all haste to regain its station upon the cork, where it remained 

 all night, though by spreading its wings it might have regained its 

 liberty. Yet that earwigs do fly, is an unquestionable fact, and they 

 do so particularly at night, as I have more than once had proof. 

 I have good reason to believe, too, that they fly in swarms, having 

 sometime since observed, upon the Woolwich road, in a small space 

 about one foot and a half square, no less than fifty or more of these 

 insects sticking to some palings, which I had seen on the previous 

 day a labourer coating all over with pitch. Some of them I ob- 

 served had still their wings expanded, being unable to fold them up 

 under their wing cases, owing to their adhering so strongly to that 

 substance. — J.* 



ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF A SEA DEVIL. {Ceplmlopterusy 



BY M. LE VAILLANT. 



Figure of a Sea Devil. 



In the latitude 10° 15' north, longitude 355°, we met with a calm 

 that delayed us several days, and in the interval I witnessed a phe- 



* The Figures of another communication from J., are engraving for next Number. 



