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Blatta Americana. The Cock-roach. Thefe arc 
very troublefome and definitive Infects, and arc lo 
numerous and voracious, that it is impoflible to keep 
Victuals of any kind from being devoured by them, 
without clofe covering. They are flat, and lo thin, 
that few Chefts or Boxes can exclude them : They 
eat not only Leather and Parchment, but Linen and 
Paper: They difappear in Winter, and are molt nu- 
merous in the hotteft Days in Summer, and com- 
mit their Depredations mod at Night. 
Blatta maxima fufea , pelt at a , non alata. So 
called from having a fort of Shield over their Head. 
Scar abatis peltatus. This Beetle has its Name 
for the fame Realon. 
ii . Scar abatis pilularis ? Americanus. Tumble- 
turds. 
This is the moil numerous and the mod remark- 
able of the Beetle-Kind of any in North America: 
The Employment they are always feen at, is pro- 
viding Nidi for their Eggs; for which they arc en- 
dowed with the like Sagacity as the Turkey-Buzzard *, 
to find out their Subfiflence by the Excellency of 
their Nofes, which direfts them in Flights to Excre- 
ments juft fallen from Man or Beaft, on which they 
inftantly drop, and fall unanimoufly to work, in 
forming round Pellets thereof, in the middle of 
which they lay an Egg. Thefe Pellets in Septem- 
ber they convey three Feet deep in the Earth, where 
they lie till the Approach of Spring, when the Eggs 
become animate, burft their Nefts, and find their 
Way out of the Earth. Mr. Catesby fays, he has 
Y attentively 
* See this Hijl. of CaroIina y Vol. I. p. 6. 
