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There are eighteen fpecies of forficnla now known, 
diftinguifhed by the following appellations : 1. Forficula 
auricularia: dark chefnut; forceps curved, toothed at 
the bafe ; antennae with fourteen joints. This is the 
common earwig, found in old walls, ripe fruit, and de¬ 
cayed wood. A correct figure of it is given in the plate 
of Flustra, at fig. ii. The larva differs but little from 
the perfect infect, and runs with great agility. This, 
and the minor , are the only fpecies found in England. 
2. Forficula gigantea ; the larged fpecies known : pale, 
variegated above with black ; tail two-toothed ; forceps 
extended, one-toothed. Inhabits Europe. Antennae of 
many joints ; eyes black ; (hield flat fquare, the edge 
and dorfal line black; abdomen black, the lad fegment 
pale, with two drong brown teeth ; forceps pale, the 
tooth and tip brown.—A correct figure of this is given 
in the plate of Flustra, at fig. 12. 
3. Forficula bipundtata : black; hind part of the head 
and legs rufous ; fliells with a white dot. Inhabits Italy. 
Antennx of eleven joints ; thorax edged with rufous ; 
Ihells palifii at the margin; abdomen black; forceps 
Iharp, draight. 
4. Forficula biguttata : black ; fliells with a yellow 
fpot ; forceps incurved, toothed at the bafe and in the 
middle. Inhabits Hungary, Head dull-rufous, imma¬ 
culate ; thorax flat, fquare, the outer edge yellowifli ; 
wings fliort, yellowifli, tipt with brown; body black; 
legs dull-rufous. 
5. Forficula fulvipes : black ; mouth ; fide of the ab¬ 
domen and legs white. Inhabits Guinea. Antennae 
palifli, of eleven joints ; head glabrous, piceous ; thorax 
black, with pale edges and dorfal line ; fliells fmooth, 
the future and margin at the bafe pale ; wings whitifli 
tipt with black ; forceps large, toothed within. 
6 . Forficula albipes : black; thorax behind, bafe of 
the fliells, wings and legs, white. Inhabits the South 
American ifiands. Antennae brown; head black ; mouth 
pale ; abdomen gloffy black, edges of the fegments pale 
rufous; forceps fmall, black. 
7. Forficula minor: Ihells tedaceous, immaculate; 
antennae of ten joints. Inhabits Europe. Antennae 
whitifli at the tip. 
8. Forficula pygmxa : black ; thorax fquare, with a 
pale edge ; antennae and legs tedaceous. Inhabits the 
plants of Guinea. Antennae of eleven joints ; thorax 
fmooth, the lateral and hind-margin yellowifli ; fliells 
pale at the outer margin; abdomen black; forceps un¬ 
armed. 
9. 'Forficula fiexuofa: forceps flexuous; fliells with 
two yellow dots. Inhabits Cayenne. Body brown ; for¬ 
ceps ferruginous at the bafe. 
10. Forficula dentata : antennae of ten joints; body 
brown; edges of the thorax and legs pale; forceps 
toothed at the bafe. Inhabits Madeira. Antennae brown, 
the fird joint pane ; thorax flat margined ; end of the 
abdomen four-toothed; forceps large curved, black, pale 
at the bafe, and many toothed. 
fid Forficula annulata: black; lad joint but one of 
the antennae and legs white. Inhabits the South Ame¬ 
rican ifiands. Antennx of thirteen joints, black, the 
fird and lad joint but one white ; mouth whitifh ; thorax 
Sat with a whitidi edge; forceps diort, unarmed; legs 
pale ; thighs w ith a brown ring. 
12. Forficnla erythrocephala: black; head and tail 
ferruginous; fpots on the abdomen and legs yellowifli. 
Inhabits the South American ifiands. Eyes black ; tho¬ 
rax fquare rufous, with two broad black dorfal lines; 
fiiells black with a reddifh edge; forceps long, flightly 
crenate, ferruginous. 
13. Forficula elongata : dufky ; margin of the thorax, 
fliells, and legs, pale; forceps one-toothed at the bafe. 
Inhabits the South American ifiands. Antennx yellow- 
iih ; head ferruginous ; thorax fquare ; abdomen black 
at the bafe and tip, the middle dull ferruginous ; forceps 
long, curved, pale at the bafe ; tipt with brown. 
14. Forficula parallella; black; edges of the thorax, 
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fliells, and legs, pale; forceps draig’nt, unarmed. Inha¬ 
bits Madeira. Antennx brown, of twelve joints, the 
fird pale : forceps tipt with black. 
15. Forficula niorio: deep black; antennx with a 
white band. Inhabits Otaheite. Antennx of eighteen 
joints, black, the joints 1, 4, 15, white; thorax flat, 
rounded behind ; wings hyaline, tipt with black : forceps 
large, curved, with fmall denticles at the bafe ; legs fer¬ 
ruginous at the ends. 
16. Forficula fiavipennis : black ; fliells yellowifli with 
a black future. Inhabits Senegal. Head dull rufous, 
with a black frontal fpot; thorax margined, blackifli; 
body black ; legs yellow. 
17. Forficula pallipes: forceps long, one-toothed; 
body black ; legs white. Inhabits the South American 
ifiands. Antennx pale; thorax fquare, rounded behind, 
the outer margin whitidi; fliells brown; wings white 
with a brown line at the tip ; forceps nearly as long as the 
abdomen, ferruginous tipt with black. 
18. Forficula livida: livid, very minute; forceps 
toothed, when examined by a lens. Inhabits Europe. 
FORGAB'ULUM, or Forgav'el, f. inlaw; a quit 
rent ; a fmall referved rent in money. 
FORGA'VE, the preterite of forgive. 
FORGE, f. [forge, Fr.] The place where iron is 
beaten into form. In common language we ufe forge- for 
large work, and fmithcry. for fmall ; but in books the dif- 
tinction is not always kept: 
Now behold 
In the quick forge and working-houfe of thought, 
How London doth pour out her citizens. SkakeJ'peare. 
Place where anything is made or fliaped.—From no other 
forge hath proceeded a drange conceit, that to ferve God 
with any fet form of common prayer is fuperditious. 
Hooker. —Manufacture of metalline bodies ; the a£t of 
working.—In the greater bodies the forge was eafy, the 
matter being duCtile and fequacious and obedient to the 
Broke of the artificer, and apt to be drawn, formed, and 
moulded. Bacon. 
To FORGE, v. a. [forger, old French.] To form by 
the hammer; to beat into diape : 
Tiger with tiger, bear with bear, you’U find 
In leagues oftenfive and defendve join’d ; 
But lawlefs man the anvil dares profane, 
And forge that dee! by which a man is Bain, 
Which earth at fir'd for plough-fhares did afford, 
Nor yet the fmith had learn’d to form a fword. Tate. 
To make by any means.—Thofe names that the fchools 
forged, and put into the mouths of fchclars, could never 
get admittance into common ufe, or obtain the licence of 
public approbation. Locke. 
He was a kind of nothing, titlelefs, 
’Till he had forg’d liimfelf a name i’ th’ fire 
Of burning Rome. Shakefpearc . 
To counterfeit ; to falfi'fy : 
Were I king, 
I diould cut off the nobles for-their lands.; 
For my more having would be but as lauce 
To make me hunger more, that I diould/crge 
Quarrels unjuB againd the good and loyal, 
Dedroying them for wealth. SJiakefpeare. 
To Forge over, a fea term, to force a ved'el over aflioal 
by crowding a quantity of fail. 
FOR'GER,/. One who makes or forms. One who 
counterfeits any thing ; a falfifier. —No forger of lies wil¬ 
lingly and wittingly uimiflies out the means of his own 
detection. Weft. 
FOR'GERYjyi The crime of falfification : 
Has your king married the Lady Gray ? 
And now, to footh your forgery and his. 
Sends me a paper to perfuade me patience. Shakefpeare. 
Smith’s work: fabrication ; the aft of the forge ; 
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