NATURAL HISTORY. ¥@ 
6. The reddith Staphylinus with a head, wings, and hinder part of 
the belly black. : 
7. The dufky Staphylinus with the future of the cafes of the wingsy 
= belly and feet of aniron-grey colour. It is found among rotter 
ood, 
| 8. The black fmooth: Staphylinus with red feet. : 
9. The black fmooth Svaphylinus with red feet, and the edges of the 
tales of the wings yellow: this is a very {mallinfec, bemg no bigger 
than a flea. 
to. The black Staphylinus, with the cafes of the wings grey on the 
fore part, and red legs. It is found in moift fand on the banks of 
 Tivers, where it produces its young. 
11, The black Staphylinus with blood-coloured cafes of the wings. 
Tt is found in no particular place, but in alt alike. } 
12. The teftaceous Staphylinus, fo called by a Swedi/o naturalift, is 
found on plants and dunghills. 
13. The black Staphylinus with the breaft, eafes of the wings, and 
feet, a little teftaceous. 
14. The black Svaphylinas with the cafes of the wings, feelers and 
feet, of an iron-grey colour. : 
15. The black Staphylinus with the cafes of the wings and legs of a 
dufky colour. 
The common Staphylinus with long jaws, is about an inch in lengthy 
’ @nd the head, breaft, and cafes of the wings, are of a fhining black, and 
{mooth, though the cafes are fometimes variegated with grey : the body 
1s of a deep black, but not very gloffy, and'the legs are long and black 5 
and there are two hard, long, very fharp horns, on the forehead. I 
*S common under thady hedges. 
The reddifh-brown Staphylinus is about the fize of a common Ant, 
and the body is of a pale red, with a little mixture of brown, but the 
ead, andthe three or four laft rings of the body are black: the cafes 
f the wings are of a deep blue, and the legs reddifh, with black joints : 
the feelers confit of eleven joints, and are of a pale colour, except at 
the ends, where they are black. It is fometimes met with near the 
anks of brooks and rivers. 
The hoary Svaphylinus has an oblong body, of a greenifh colour, with 
4 braffy caft, and clouded with black fpotsy the head is large, and” 
fomewhat flat, and the mouth is forked; the feelers confift of nine 
Joints, and the cafes of the wings are fhort, of a greyifh-black colour, 
with a brafly caft: the tail is furnithed with two plumous hairs, and 
©n prefling the body, two white hooks will be thruft out from the tail. 
Cis an inhabitant of the dunghills. 
The black Staphylinas is about half an inch in length, and has a long | 
Rattith body, with a black gloffy head: the cafes of the wings are of a 
deep blue, with a mixture of black, and are bright and glofy: they 
ave a metalline caft, and have many {mall fpecks : the feelers confilt 
°f nine joints; but the principal diftinétion is the fpots on the brealt, 
Which are ten in number, and a little hollowed. It may be fometimes 
Met with among decayed trees in the woods. E 
The Mill-bcetle, has feelers like briftles, two horns on the tail, memi- 
-raneous cafes of the wings, and a flattith, roundifi, marginated breatt. 
Lis of the fize of a Cricket, and is of a deep iron colour, approaching 
