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rope 5 a few of .them of South America, and Tome are 
common to our own country. Thofe of the fecond di- 
vifion are, for the raoft part, aquatic infects, found in 
ftagnant waters, or under duck-weed ; the reft are to be 
traced on plants and flowers. 
I. Lip Cylindrical. 
1. Nitidula bipuftulata: oval and black; the fhells have 
a red dot. It inhabits this country, and others parts of 
Europe. Deftroys carcafes, meat, and bacon, on which 
it feeds. 
2. Nitidula quadri-puftulata : brown and oval ; (hells 
marked with tw o red (pots. It inhabits Germany, and is 
larger than the laft. The fhells are fometimes fpotted on 
the margin; the legs are rufous. 
3. Nitidula obfcura ; oval, black, dufky. It inhabits 
Germany; and is reprefented on the preceding Plate, at 
fig- 2 ’ . 
4. Nitidula abbreviata : oval, black, and rather dufky ; 
fhells fmooth, obtufe, abbreviated. Inhabits New Zealand. 
5. Nitidula marginata; oval; fhells grooved, the edge 
and fpots on the difk ferruginous. It is found in Italy. 
The body is beneath pitchy; the thorax black, with a 
broad ferruginous border. 
6. Nitidula aeftiva: teftaceous, fubvillous; thorax tranf- 
verfe, emarginate ; eyes black. This is an inhabitant of 
various parts of Europe ; reprefented at fig. 3. 
7. Nitidula obfoleta : oval, teftaceous ; fhells fmooth 5 
thorax emarginate. 
8. Nitidula ferruginea : oval, fubvillous, ferruginous ; 
fliells ftriate. This is an Englifh infe< 5 l, and found on the 
lycoperdon. 
9. Nitidula imperialis : oval, black ; fliells with con¬ 
nected white fpots, forming two ftreaks ; the edge is ru¬ 
fous. It is found in Germany. 
10. Nitidula ftrigata : oval, brown ; edge of the thorax 
and fhells line at the bafe, and ftreak acrofs the tip of 
the latter fulvous. Found in Saxony. 
11. Nitidula decem-guttata : oval, brown ; edge of the 
thorax and five fpots on the fliell pale. Inhabits Germany. 
12. Nitidula varia : oval; thorax and fliells varied with 
black and ferruginous. It is found particularly at Keil. 
See fig. 4. 
13. Nitidula fordida : oval, black; thorax and fliells 
dull ferruginous. It is found in divers parts of Germany; 
and refembles the preceding. 
14. Nitidula fiexuofa: oval, black; edge of the thorax 
and flexuous fpot on the fhells yellow. It is found in 
France. 
13. Nitidula bicolor: ferruginous; fliells black, with a 
ferruginous band at the bafe, and dot at the tip. Inha¬ 
bits Keil. 
16. Nitidula colon : black ; fliells varied with ferrugi¬ 
nous ; thorax emarginate. Inhabits different parts of 
Europe. 
17. Nitidula limbata : black; edge of the thorax, and 
border of the fhells, ferruginous! Inhabits Saxony; and is 
a very fmall infeft. 
18. Nitidula haemorrhoidalis: black; (hells ferruginous 
at the tip. Inhabits Hamburgh. 
ig. Nitidula difcoides : black ; difk of the fliells ferru¬ 
ginous; thorax margined. It is found in England, and 
in various parts of Germany. 
20. Nitidula reticularia: black; fliells fmooth; thorax 
margined. 
21. Nitidula puftulata : black; fhells truncate; three 
dots on the fliells ; tail and legs rufous. Inhabits Ger¬ 
many, on flowers; and is a fmall infeCt. 
24 . Nitidula litua : teftaceous ; fhells with a black 
arched blotch. It inhabits Saxony, and is fmall. 
23. Nitidula teftacea : thorax teftaceous, with a black 
fpot; fliells teftaceous, with a black band in the middle, 
dotted with teftaceous. Found in Keil. 
24. Nitidula floralis : black; fliells teftaceous, the fu¬ 
ture black. An inhabitant of different parts of South 
America. 
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25. Nitidula aenea: braffy-green ; antennae and legs 
black. Inhabits England. 
26. Nitidula viridefcens : braffy-green ; legs rufous. 
It inhabits Keil. 
27. Nitidula hemiptera: ferruginous; fliells abbre¬ 
viated, teftaceous, immaculate. Found in fome of the 
South-American iflands. 
28. Nitidula dimidiata: black; fhells abbreviated, 
brown; legs ferruginous. This is a very minute infeft ; 
and is alfo found in the South-American iflands. 
29. Nitidula truncata: teftaceous; fjiells truncate, with 
a black fpot at the bafe. It is found in Germany. 
30. Nitidula rufipes: black, polifned ; legs pale. This 
is an Engiifh infedt. 
31. Nitidula fetacea: ochraceous, immaculate; eyes 
black ; fliells very fmooth. 
32. Nitidula peCtoralis: brown; head and legs ferru¬ 
ginous ; club of the antennae yeilow. 
33. Nitidula pilofa: black; fhells villous; antenna; 
and legs ferruginous. It inhabits Germany. 
II. Lip fquare. 
34. Nitidula aquatica: brown ; thorax rough, and with 
the fhells braffy-brown. This, as well as the next, is 
found in many parts of Europe; and in this country in 
ftagnant waters. 
35. Nitidula nubila : grey; thorax and fliells grooved 
and rugged. 
36. Nitidula elongata: thorax punftured, braffy; fliells 
brown, with longitudinal railed lines. Found in the ftag¬ 
nant waters of Germany. 
37. Nitidula crenata : brown ; thorax rugged ; fhells 
grooved, crenate. This is alfo found in Germany. 
38. Nitidula humeralis: brown ; thorax fmooth ; fliells 
crenate, ftriate, with a humeral teftaceous dot. It inha¬ 
bits Germany; and is fmall. 
39. Nitidula flavipes: black; thorax grooved ; ftriate, 
fhells and legs teftaceous. It inhabits Sweden, in ftagnant 
waters. 
40. Nitidula pygmtea: thorax margined, nearly fmooth, 
black ; fliells ftriate, the tip and legs ferruginous. 
41. Nitidula minima: thorax fmooth; fliells ftriate; 
body brown, immaculate. This is found in England, 
and other parts of Europe 5 and is, as its name denotes, 
very minute. 
42. Nitidula ccccinelloides: black; head, thorax, and 
fliells, fumate. Found in Europe. 
43. Nitidula fufea: brown-teftaceous; fliells punfiured, 
ftriate; antenna; and legs teftaceous. It inhabits this 
country, and other parts of Europe. 
NITO'CRIS, in Scripture hiftory, the mother of Bel- 
fliazzar, whofe father was Evil Merodach, and his grand¬ 
father Nebuchadnezzar. She w'as a woman of extraor¬ 
dinary abilities; (lie took the burden of all public affairs 
upon herfelf; and, while her fon followed his pleafures, 
did all that could be done by human prudence to fuftain 
the tottering empire. She perfe&ed the works which 
Nebuchadnezzar had begun for the defence of Babylon; 
raifed ftrong fortifications on the fide of the river, and 
caufed a wonderful vault to be made under it, leading 
from the old palace to the new, twelve feet high and fif¬ 
teen wide. She Iikewife built a bridge acrofs the Euphrates, 
and accompliflied feveral other works, which were after¬ 
wards aferibed to Nebuchadnezzar. Philoftrates, in de- 
feribing this bridge, tells us, that it was built by a queen 
who was a native of Media; whence we may conclude 
this illuftrious queen to have been by birth a Mede. 
Nitocris is faid to have placed her tomb over one of the 
moft remarkable gates of the city, with an infeription to 
the following effect: “ If any king of Babylon after me 
fhall be in diftrefs for money, he may open this fepulchre, 
and take out as much as may ferve him ; but, if he be in 
no real neceflity, let him forbear, or he fhall have caufe to 
repent of his prefumption.” This_monument and inferip¬ 
tion are faid to have remained untouched till the reign of 
Darius, who, coniidering the gate was ufelefs, no ma^i 
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