The wings of the earwig arc remarkably! elegant, and lie in so many folds beneath their small sheaths, as to excite admiration. In proportion to the size of their owner, they arc large and transparent ; though probably lcw careless observers know that they have any,. for they fly only by night, and it is dillicuit to make them open their wings in the day-time. instinct has taught the female to seek some damp place for her eggs, cquai1y secure from. drought or heat. Nor does her maternal care stop here, as in most other insects, but when they are hatched sh broods over her young, something like a hen over her chickens; the little ones clinging to her sides for several hours in the day. The larva nrc very small at first, and have a great rccnihlance to the pa rent insect, except being of a whitish colour, and nott yet having the forceps at the end of the tail curved inwards. The earwig lives among ilowers, and feeds upon decayed fruit and other vegetable substances, unless pressed by hunger, when it has been known to prey upon its own species.

having brought you to the last genus of the
first order, I shall conclude my letter, after
earnestly recommending you to examine every
object with the most diligent attention, that
none of those minute parts, appropriated to
particular