6 . P, 
Tak 40, 
( I18 ) 
der-ground, and alfo above ground in obfcure places. 
It is nouriflied with Wermt only that it finds , and 
devoures, it tears open the belly of the Worm it kills, 
and fucks the guts, and eats them, lifting up its head, 
and now and then fetling its feet upon the body of the 
Worm’. I have obferved the guts of the Yellow Worms^ 
which it had plucked out, to have the thicknes of the 
hair of a mans head, now when it is full, it fleeps 5 hours, 
wi hout any motion; and drawing its head almoft un- 
der its body, it lyes upon a fide. 
And becaufe this Beetle is of a very flow motion, and 
lives not, but of other Worms, it has wings 5 thefe wings 
are as long as its body, and yet do not appear, or can 
be feen, unlefs it produce them 5 fo accuratly are they ‘ 
rolled up and folded, and thus hid, are not dirtied, and 
marred by creeping underground. 
SeBion. 7. 
O F 
GRASSHOPPERS. 
Number, isi. 
Many years I defired to konw, whence Grasfiopperi 
were bred, and did u(e muc d 'igence in the matter. 
I have had 40. years experience, and do attefl the 
Grasfiopper depifted, in the i2 1 Tsible, yearly to be 
found, the moneths oiNovemkriHaAPemtbtr^ in our 
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