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I. An Account of the Scarabxus Galeatus Pulfator, 
or the Dcach Watch, by Mr. Hugh Stackhoufe. 
Communicated by John Harwood, L. L> D* 
4{. S. S. 
A S I flood thoughtful in my Study, on the 16th of 
May , 1724 , 1 happen’d to hear, what is commonly 
call’d the Death Watch, very near, as I thought, to 
the Place where I then flood : This brought into my 
Mind, what l had formerly read in the Thilofifhical 
Transactions, for the Month of October , 1698, of the 
Scarabaus Galeatus Tuljator , found, and defcrib’d, 
by Mr. Benjamin Allen . While I was thinking upon 
the Account there given, I fancied I heard the Beatings 
fomewhat flrongerthan before, which encourag’d me to 
fearch after it I thereupon removed my Station to an- 
other Part of the Room, and foon difcover’d, that l 
had pafs’d the Place where the Beatings were ; upon 
which, I concluded, that it lay fomewhere betwixt my 
two Stations ^ I therefore remov’d, and placed myfelf 
about the middle Diftance where, though the Beatings 
Aid not repeat fo frequently as before, yet when they 
did, I found I was flill nearer ’em. While I flood in 
this Place, I fancied ’twas over my Head, toward the 
Ceiling of the Room upon this, I got upon a Chair, 
that had a Sedge Bottom, and flood to the Wall juft be- 
fore me but flanding there for fome time, I could 
hear no Beatings at all. I then flept down from the 
Chair, and after I had flood flill for fome time, the 
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