I 
THE 
BEATING PTINUS, 
OR 
DEATH-WATC H. 
Generic Character . 
Antenna filiform; the laft joints larger than the 
others. 
Thorax roundifh, immarginated, receiving the 
head. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Dufky and fomewhat hairy PTINUS, with irre¬ 
gular grey-brown fpots. 
THE DEATH-WATCH. 
Phil. Tranf. vol. 20. p. 376. vol. 22. p. 832. 
Amongft the popular fuperftitions which the almoft 
general illumination of the prefent century has not 
been able to obliterate, the dread of the Death-watch 
may well be confidered as one of the moft predomi¬ 
nant; which, though nothing more than a fmall infeA, 
ftill continues to difturb the habitations of rural tran¬ 
quillity with groundlefs fears and abfurd apprehe'nfions. 
It 
