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An Accmnt of the ScarabaeusGaleatus Pi^lfator, 
or the Death'Watch \ tak^n Augufl:. \6^^. 
by Mr. Benjamin Allen, 
T'^He Second Animal I obftrv'd (Vid. Fig. 2, 3, 4.) 
is a Death- Watch ; I have taken fome before this, 
it is that which makes a Noife refembling exaftiy that 
©f a Watch ; it is faithfully the very fame, and liv'd Four 
Days with me, beating exaftly, tor \ took two, I (up- 
pole one was the Female, thai is only ConjecShire. 
I took one fome Years fmce, which I then trac'd by 
the Noife, as I did this, and were both the fame ; I 
ihew'd it to Mr. Ray while it was alive and did beat. 
This fmall Beetle, which makes a Ticking or diftinA 
Beating , refembling the Noife of a Watch , being 
rarely heard, and not known, has cbtain'd the Ninne of 
& Death- Watch, whkh yet I have known to be heard by 
many, where no mortality followed ; and particularly 
by my felf, who have taken Two of the fame, Seven 
Years fince, without any Death following that Year. 
This Beetle I found in a Copper Body, it refembled 
dry Dirt in Colour. F found another, fome Years before, 
on a rotten Poft and made the Noife like a Watch, by 
beating its Head on theSubjeci that it finds fit for Sound, 
this found in Augufl, 1695-. had another anfver'd ic in 
the fame Room, and after a Minute's diftin^t Beating, 
would forbear for the other to anfwtr ; which the other 
fingle one would not ; though that would make feme 
Breaks now and then* The Part it beats with is, the ex- 
tream Edge of the Face, which I may call the Upper- 
Lip, the Mouth being protected ])y this Bony Part, and 
lying underneath, out of view, 
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