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but highly polished within. The chrysalis lies about three months, before it gives birth to the complete insect, which feeds upon the liquor that oozes from the oak tree.:in this operation, the peculiar conformation of the jaw is of essential use, as it enables its owner to strip off the bark, and fix itself on the branch whence it draws the juice. As. we proceed, we shall perceive manye similar instances of the harmony between the instruments of action, and the instincts of the animal.

The third genus is named Dermestes. This small insect is called the Lathen chafer, from the injury it occasions, in its larva state, to skins, furs, and other animal substances of a dry kind,, upon which it preys with persevering destruction. To the collectors of stuffed birds, dried plants, &c. it is a terrible enemy, anti can scarcely be destroyed but by arsenic.

Tue Dermestes lardarius, is about the third of an inch long. it is produced from the bacon maggot, and when touched, instinct has taught it to conceal its head under its thorax, and its feet beneath the abdomen; remaining in that situation so long without motion, that a person unacquainted with its habits,, would suppose it were dead.

The genus Ftinus, like the last, consists of rwall insects, the larr or maggots of wbich