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The Hiftory of ANIMALS. 
Necydalis elytrorum apice punclo flavo notato . 
The Necydalis ^ 'with a yellow fpot on the extremity of the elytra. 
This is a fmall Infed, fcarce exceeding a common loufe in fize: the head is 
fmail and black, but the jaws are yellow : the thorax is yellow, and is marinated - 
the exterior wings are black, but brownifh in the middle, and terminated by a yellow 
fpot: the interior wings are black, and are of twice the length of the exterior, and 
lie in a cruciform manner over one another : the antenna are nearly equal to the bo¬ 
dy in length, and are yellowifh at the bafe, but black elfewhere: the body is brown 
but fomewhat yellowifh at the fides j the lower part of the legs alfo is yellowifh. * 
It is not a very common fpecies, but we meet with it fometimes on the ranunculus’s, 
both in our fields and gardens. I met with a confiderable number in June laft near 
Boflon in Lincolnfhire. 
Necydalis elytris apice lineola alba not at is. 
The Necydalis , with a white line on the extremity of the exterior wings. 
The head is black ; the thorax is alfo black ; it is oblong, and fomewhat depreffed, 
and has two elegant fpots of white on it: the exterior wings are grey • they are angu- 
lated toward the bafe, and are fcarce half fo long as the body $ they feparate at the 
extremities, and have each a white line in that part: the interior wings are half 
naked; they are croffed, and are not drawn in under the others: the antennas are 
twice as long as the body j they are of a grey colour j the legs alfo are grey, and they 
are thick in the upper part. 
We have it in our hedges not very unfrequently. Some have called it a Cimex* 
others a Forficula, or Earwig, but both erroneoufly. 
F O R F I C U L A,' 
T H E tail of the Forficula is a kind of forceps, capable of pinching: the exteri¬ 
or wings are very fhort, or dimidiated : the antennas are fetaceous 5 and the in¬ 
terior wings are wholly covered or drawn under the exterior fhort ones. 
Forficula alis interioribus apice macula alba notatis. 
The Forficula y with the interior wings marked with 
a white fpot . 
3Tf)c common 
eariutg. 
The antennas of this well-known Infed are long and flender ; they confift of thirteen 
or fourteen articulations: the covering of the thorax is flat, and is truncated in the an¬ 
terior part, and rounded behind j it is black in the middle, and paler round the edges : 
the exterior wings are of a pale reddifh brown ; the interior ones are fomewhat pro¬ 
minent beyond the extremities of the others, and their extremity has a white oval 
fpot: the body is of a reddifh brown, and is naked, and is armed at the extremity 
with a pair of crooked, connivent, fharp claws, as it were, which form a kind of 
forceps. 
It is very common about fruit and other vegetable fubftances. Authors call it For¬ 
ficula, and Auricularia. 
Forficula alis elytris concoloribus . 
The Forficula , with the interior wings of the fame 
colour with the exterior . 
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This fpecies is but about half the fize of the former or common kind : it’s body is 
of a bright chefnut colour j it’s head and thorax black: the exterior wings are alfo 
of a chefnut colour, and fo are the interior ones, which are fomewhat prominent from 
under them : the forceps at the tail is ufually fomewhat ered; the legs and the belly 
are paler than in the former, and the antennas confift only of ten articulations. 
It is not uncommon with us about gardens and in hedges. 
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