The Hiftory ^/ANIMALS. 55 
This genus differs extreamly from all the others in this lingular deficiency, but the 
form and ftrudute of all it’s- other parts refer it to this clafs. 
Tenebrio atra elytris acuminatis . 50)0 fKttftftlfl 
The black Tenebrio , with acuminated wings . 
This is a moderately large Infedt j it is all over of a coal black . the exterior wings 
are united all the way along their interior edges: the legs are long and (lender ; the 
antennae are moderately long, and are compofed of oblong joints, excepting the laff, 
which is round: the thorax is marginsted and pundtaied, and the cxtenor wings are 
Tts* common about duoghils, and fometimes in houfes, Mouffet and others call it 
Blatta fcetida 5 Petiver, Searabaeus impennis tardipes. It moves indeed very flowly. 
Tenebrio atra elytris pone obtufioribus . 
The black Tenebrio , with the exterior wings i~ounckd behmd. 
This is a moderately large fpecies: it’s back is fomewhat prominent, and it’s head is 
fmall: the legs are long, and moderately thick, but it’s motion is very flow : the whole 
body and wings are of a fine deep black, but with a glow of purplifh in it. 
It is frequent about our hot beds in gardens. Lifter defcribes it under the name of 
Blatta rotundior violacea. 
Tenebrio atra pone rotundata maxillis prominentibus . 
The black Tenebrio roitnded on the hinder part , and with prominent jaws . 
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This is a fmall fpecies, fcarce exceeding the common large fly in flze : the colour 
is a deep, but not glofly, black; the legs are long, and the thighs clavated : the antennae 
are flender, and moderately long. 
It is not uncommon with us in woods, among the heaps of decayed and half rotten 
branches; fometimes we meet with it in hedges, but more rarely. 
M E L O E. 
r-g-t H E antennae of the Meloeare flender and filiform : the exterior wings, or ely¬ 
tra, are dimidiated; and, as in the former genus, there are no interior ones. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, which has been called by authors 
Profcarabaeus, 
M E L O E. %\)t Qfi l&Zttlt. 
This is a large beetle : the body is oblong and moderately broad, but flattifh, not 
very thick : the legs are long; the exterior wings are dimidiated : they are foft and 
coriaceous, or of a fubftance refembling leather, and are rugofe on the furface, and 
are black, but not at all glofly : the whole creature is of the fame black colour, and 
is foft and undtuous to the touch : the body is longer in the female than id the male, 
fhewing itfelf beyond the extremity of the exterior wings: if touched, it immediately 
exfudates drops of a very clear and limpid oil from all the joints of the legs. 
It is very common in the fummer months in our dry hilly paftures. Authors call it 
Profcarabaeus, and Cantharus undtuofus j fome, Searabaeus mollis. 
NECYDALIS. 
T H E antennae of the Necydalis are fetaceous: the exterior wings are dimidia¬ 
ted, and there are interior or membranaceous ones. 
Necydalis 
