Although, like them, nocturnal in its habits, it is able to run with considerable velocity; and, instead of attaching itself to the blocks of putrefying wood, which both fall and decay in situ on those elevated tracts, it hides within the bunches of evernia scopulorum and prunastri which clothe the trunks of living trees, and fill up the crevices of the weather-beaten peaks.
"On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera"
Thomas Vernon Wollaston