=meat, and immediately commence expert swine" niers.

The genus Garabus, Bull-head, -.contains a vast number of species. As there i-s a great affinity between them, I shall confine myself to some account of the Garabus-crepdeans, a name it has received from a peculiar mode of defence bestowed upon it --by nature. When attacked-by any of its enemies, being the prey of a species of the larger Carati, it discharges a bluish, foetid, penetrating vapour, with a smart explosion, ten or twenty times successsively, which seldom fails to drive away those that would annoy it.

-The genus Tenebrio has received the name of Darkling, from its gloomy habits of lurking in dark, damp cellars, and such neglected places; avoiding the light, and delighting iii filth and putrefaction. Its colour accords with its disposition, being a coal black.

The heal-worm, so often found in flour, is the larva of the Tenebrio ?nolitor, and is the favourite food of the nightingale, when kept in confinement. The rIlenebriolles run swiftly, and emit an offensive effluvia, on which account they are often called Stinking Beetles.

Nature, various in all her productions, has endowed the genus Meloe with singular pro jerties, of which I shaiLgive au example in the

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