24 NATURAL. HISTORY. 
12. The black Beetle with black feet and feelers. The brea is fhine 
ing and narrow at the lower part, but the wings are itreaked, and of 
the middle of each there is an hollow point. : 
13. The pale teftaceous Bectle with black eyes, is of the fize of a large 
loufe, and of an opaque colour. . The cafes of the wings are flreaked. 
14. The black Beetle with a brown breait, and the caies of the wings 
marked with four livid fpots; the feet are alfo brown, and there is a 
brown {pot on the joints of the wings. 
15. The grey Beetle with the head, belly, and bafe of the cafes of the 
wings blackilh, It is fcarce fo big as a loufe, and the feelers and feet 
are grey. ; 
Linnaus has feventeen forts of Dermefles ; namely, 
1. The black Dermefles with the fore parts of the cafes of the wings 
ef an ath-colour; it is called by Ray the beetle with clavated feelers ; 
and by Fry/ch the fmall Bacon Beetle, with a tranfverfe ftreak of a 
whitith colour, on the cufky blackith cafes of the wings. It is fond of — 
bacon, and all forts of dead bodies. ; 
2. The black Dermefles with a double undulated white ftreak on the 
cafes of the wings ; in which laft particular it differs from the former, 
but in other refpects is like it. 
3. The black Derme/fes with two white {pots on the cafes of the wings. 
It is named by Fry/ch the black Dermeftes, with a white fpot on the 
cafes of the wings. It is of an oval fhape, and when the cafes of the 
wings are clofed, two white {pots appear on the back; befides which — 
there are five others; that is, one on the point of the corflet, one on 
each fide the breaft, and one along each cafe, towards each cafe; but 
they are all very fmall, and the feelers are in the fhape of a club. It 
is found among cloaths, on walls, and about provifions. 
4. The black Dermefles with two red fpecks on the cafes of the wings. 
It is called in the tranfactions of Up/a/ the Black Dermeftes, with the 
cafes of the wings marked with a red fpot. This infed, as well as the 
two former, is fond of Bacon. 
5. The black Dermefles with four red fpots on the cafes of the wings. 
is faid by Fry/ch to be a {mail beetle, fpotted with yellow, that pro- 
ceeds from a hairy worm, found among wool. It may be feen om 
trees, and fometimes on windows. 
6. The fmooth black Dermeffes, of a clouded afh-colour, with a yel- 
low corfet. Fry/ch calls it the Beetle proceeding from a fmooth black 
caterpillar. 
pups hhe teftaceous hairy Dermeftes with ftreaked blunt cafes of the 
wings; it is called by Ray the Beetle with ten elevated feelers, and in 
the Up/al tranfadtions the hairy Dermeftes, with the points of the cafes 
of the wings feeming to be gnawed off. It is of a bright brown, with 
freaked, furrowed, and dentated cafes of the wings. It is to be found 
under the bark of the pine-tree, where it makes crooked furrows. 
8. The fmooth teftaceous Dermefles with the hinder part of the cafes _ 
ef the wings hairy and blunt.” It is fond of carrion, and alfo feeds on * 
ether infects. é 
g. The black Dermefles with grey cafes of the wings that are black 
on the edges. It is called in the Up/al tranfadions, the Cylindrick 
Dermeftes, with a thick hairy collar, and teftaceous cafes of the wings. 
It is fmall, and when touched, rolls itfelf up. : 
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