38 NATURAL HISTORY. 
motion or touch, they fhed a fort of an oil, not unlike liquid heney. 
AMoufet informs us, it is never feen except in AZay; but fince the change 
of the ftile, it may now appear in the beginning of June. 
Linnaeus affirms, that the feelers are like {mall threads, and it has ne 
wings, but there are a fort of cafes for them, not above half as long in 
proportion, as in others of the Beetle kind. 
The Necydalis, fo called by Linneus, is an infe&t of the Beetle kind, 
with feelers like briftles, and the cafes of the wings that reach but half | 
way, leaving the rings partly naked. He has only one fort, which he 
calls the Necydalis with globous knees. Another author fays it is 
hardly bigger than a loufe, but has a fmall black head, with yellow | 
jaws, and a yellow breaft; that the cafes of the wings are black, ex- 
cepting the middle, where they are brownifh, and a yellow {pot at the 
extremities. ‘Che wings themtelves are black, and twice the length of 
the cafes, lying one over another like a crofs. The feelers are almoft 
as long as the body, and are yellowith, at the bafe, but black elfewhere; 
the body is brown, with a yellowifh caft on the fides, and the lower 
part of the legs are alfo yellowifh: this infect is not commonly met 
with. 
The Necydalis with a white line on the extremities of the cafes of the 
wings, has a black head and breaft, and is of an oblong, but fome- 
what deprefled fhape: there are two white {pots on the breaft, and the 
cafes of the wings are grey, being fcarce half fo long as the body: the 
wings themfelves are half naked, and the feelers are twice as long as 
the body, and of a grey colour: the legs are alfo grey, and thick in 
the upper part; they are often met with in hedges. 
The £ar-wig, is called by Linneus Forficula, and has feelers like 
briftles, a forked tail, and cafes of the wings which reach but half way, 
though they entirely cover the wings themfelves: the feclers confit of 
thirteen or fourteen joints, and the covering of the brealt is flat, it be- 
ing truncated on the fore part, rounded behind, black in the middle, 
and paler about the edges: the cafes of the wings are of a pale reddifh 
brown, and at the extremity of the wings themfelves there is a white 
oval fpot: the body is of a reddifh-brown: this is a very common 
infe&t, and generally known; there is another fort, about half the fize 
of the former, but in other refpedts differs very little from it. 
The Staphylinus, fo called by Linnaeus, is an infe@ of the Beetle kind, 
with feelers like threads, and two veficles over the tail: the cafes of 
the wings reach but half way, and the wings themfelves are covered. 
~~ Linneus mentions fifteen forts of thefe infects, namely, 
1. The hairy black Srathylinus with the throat and lower belly yel- 
dow. It is very common in Friezland. 
‘2. The hairy afh-coloured Staphylinus clouded with black, is found 
in horfe dunghills. 
3.. The black fmooth Staphylinus with jaws as long as the head. It 
is called by Lifer the greater black Beetle, with biting nippers; and 
by Ray the Staphylinus that is entirely black: this feems to be the fame 
as one hereafter mentioned. It lives in woods upon infeéts. . 
' 4. The black Staphylinus with red cafes of the wings and feet. It is 
found in dunghills. : 
5. The black Staphylinus with a brafs-coloured fhining breaft, and 
the cafes of the wings of a blackifh-blue, j 
