3 ^ The Hiftory of ANIMALS, 
opake, ferving as a kind of vagina or cafe for the others; thefe will make the fir# clafs' 
under the name of Coleoptera. 
Others have the external pair of wings harder and firmer than the others, but 
more approaching to the nature of the internal, and not perfectly rigid and opake/as in 
the former. Thefe will make the fecond clafs, under the name of Scleroptera* 
Others have all the wings alike, and have them of a membranaceous ftru&ure but 
furnifhed with ftrong ribs or nerves: thefe will conflitute the third clafs, under the 
name of Neuroptera, 
Others have all the four wings covered with a fine duft, which duft, when exa¬ 
mined by the microfcope, is found to be compofed of little regular fcales, which have 
been improperly called feathers : thefe will conftitute the fourth clafs, under the name 
of Lepidoptera. 
And, finally, others have the wings merely membranaceous, compofed of a fine 
thin fubftance, without any remarkable nerves: thefe will make the fifth and la ft 
clafs, under the name of the Hyrnenoptera. 
TETRAPTERA. 
i 
InfeEls which have four wings. 
Clafs the Fir ft, 
COLEOPTERA, 
InfeEls which have four wings , the external ones perfeElly unlike the others^ 
being hard , firm , rigid, and opake, and having the appearance of 
two valves forming a cafe or vagina for the others \ and having the 
mouth formed of two tranfverfe jaws. 
SCARABiEUS. 
T H E antennas of the Scarabasus are of a clavated figure, and fiffile longitudi¬ 
nally : the eggs of all thefe hatch into hexapode worms, from which the beetle 
is afterwards produced. 
Scarabceus cornubus duobus mobilibus^ cequalibus, apice hi - 
furcis introrfum ramo denticulifque inftruElis. 
The Scarabceus , with ramofe , forked , moveable , equal horns . 
%i)t 
beetle. 
This is a very large and very beautiful creature: it’s colour on the back is a dufky 
brown, nearly approaching to black: it’s length is more than an inch, and it’s breadth 
about half an inch, or little more: the horns are equal to the body in length, and 
fometimes in the full grown ones much more fo j they are ufually black, fometimes of 
a fine red like coral; they are forked at the ends, and have each a large branch, he- 
fide fome denticulations on the infide ; they are both of the fame length, and ferve 
the creature, as the claws of crabs and lobfters do thofe animals, to pinch and hold 
things faft with : the eyes are hard, prominent, and of a pale colour: the fore legs 
are longer and ftronger than the other pairs. 
It is frequent in Kent and Suflex, and in fome other parts of England. There is 
hardly a ftranger fight than this creature flying j it does not place itfelf horizontally, 
as might be imagined in this motion, but flies vertically, though it’s motion be hori¬ 
zontal. All the writers on In feds have defcribed it. Mouffet calls it Cervus volans $ 
Charleton, Cervus volans platyceros j Wagner, Scarabelaphus ; Olearius, Taurus vo¬ 
lans. Pliny was better acquainted with the flrudure and ufe of thefe horns, than 
fome of the people who wrote in what are called more improved ages. 
