The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
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Patata Loufe. 
This is a fmall Infe€&t very much troubling thofe who go amongit 
Patata-Pieces, or Grounds planted with thofe Roots; it has a very {mall, 
brown Head and Thorax, with fix indifferently long Legs of a 
hght brown Colour; the other Settion, viz. of the Abdomen, is a 
little bigger than a Muftard-Seed, almoft round, and of a black and 
yellow Colour mix’d. It had extended, from the Flower of a Patata to 
a Leaf a long. Thread like one of thofe of a Spiders Web, and on it was 
a little Bag, containing its Eggs or Yuung, which it was very careful of 
putting under its Belly, as fome Spiders do. 
They ftick to the Legs of Men and Women, and -raife Knobs, or 
fmall uneafy Lumps in them, and are in moft Pataca-Pieces. 
They cleave tothe Inhabitants like Ticks in the Marfhes. For Reme- 
dy the Part is anointed with Oil, and fcraped or burnt, Ovied, | 
VII. Coffus vel Hexapus infectum, maximum, albicans, edule. Tab. 233- 
Fig. 6,7 and 8. 
The Cotton-Tree Worm. 
This Worm was from the Head, ‘which was ‘very large, to the Tail, 
about two Inches and a half long, it was as big as one’s Thumb, 
confilted of twelve Aznuli or Sections, comprehending: the’ Head::and 
Tail, and was almoft white, fmooth and fhining, bating fome fmall, fhort 
Hairs here and there. The Wrinkles, Furrows or Sa/czt between the 
Annuli were very deep, there was a black Line run down the Back. 
from the Head to the Tail, which was a little brown, the Anas co- 
verd with a fmall Flap; every Annals had on its Sides, oval, fmall, 
brown Holes, likely its Windpipes, and there-were fhort Hairs about 
them. The firit three Anal: had on each Side of their under Sides one Foot 
or Leg very fmall in Proportion to the Creature, and brown, The firft 
SeCtion, or that on the Head was inclining to a brownifh Orange Co- 
lour, fomewhat hairy, and harder than the reft ; ic had by the Mouth, 
two black, hard, hairy fharp Claws, with which it eat or corroded rotten 
Wood, over them was a brown Flap like a Lobfter’s Tail under the 
feveral Claws, and in the Sa/ci was a certain {mall white Kind of a Loufe 
which infefted it. The Excrement of the Belly was folid and an- 
ular. 
: Upon the firft opening of this Worm, iffued out a great Quantity of 
limpid Water, aud appeared a great deal of Fat on all Sides of the In- 
teftines, which were yellow. There were a great Number of fmall, fine, 
white Threads went from them into the Far, as alfo from the oval, 
brown Holes, Trachea, or, Windpipes into the Worm. I could not ob- 
ferve the Guts, from the Mouth to the Avas, to be wider in one Place 
than another; they had one Circumvolution or two before they ended 
in the Rectum, and were partly fil?d with a vifcid, yellowifh, brown 
Juice. 
They live, feed on, and eat their Way thro’ old Cotton-Trees, Bully- 
Trees, and others, wherein they breed, and thrive very well, efpecially 
when thefe Trees fall and rot on the Ground. 
They are fought after by Negroes and Indians, and boyl’d in theie 
ap Potages, Ollios, and Pepper-pots, and are accounted of admirable 
Tafte, like to, but much beyond, Marrow. 
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