Devil's Coach-horse (Oeipus olens), a common British and European beetle, in the family Staphylinidae. It has very much reduced wing-covers, and resembles many of its relatives in the habit of curving its posterior body upwards, using the tip to adjust the wings under their covers.
Devil's Coach-horse
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 780
Source scan(s): p. 0793