in botany. *Scutellaria.*

zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of coleoptera. The feelers are like threads, but thicker on the outside; the clytra are margined; and the head is hid under the thorax; from which last circumstance is derived the name of the genus. Foreign countries afford many fine species of them. Those we meet with in these parts have something singular. Their larva, by the help of the two prongs which are to be found at its hinder extremity, makes itself, with its own excrements, a kind of umbrella, that shelters it from the sun and rain. When this umbrella grows over-dry, it parts with it for a new one. This larva casts its slough several times. Thistles and verticillated plants are inhabited by these insects. There is one species, of which the remarkable chrysallis resembles an armorial escutcheon. It is that which produces our variegated casida, and is a very singular one. Numbers of them are found on the side of ponds, upon the wild eleocharis.