184.  Mrerocranvrpia. 
body-plac'd in that poftute: The leggs were all muchofthefamemake, 
: beingallof them cover'dwitha ss ype fcaleor theljult like the legs 
of a Crabb or Lobfter,and the contrivance of the joints feenY’d much the 
fame each lege feem'’d made up of eight parts, 1, 25°34 5.1657, 8, to 
the eighth or‘laft of which, grew the foles' and clawsj’deferibed before 
in the 38.0bfervation. SOT TORE. Yi cio ei ae, nota 4d 2OLlrrd 
_ Out of the upper partof this trunck grew the two wings>which] men 
tion'd in the 38. Obfervation, confilting ‘of'a film, cxténded on’ certain 
fall ftiff wires or bones: thefe in a blue Fly, were much: longer then 
the body, bur‘in other kind: of Flies they are ‘of very differing propor 
tions'to the body. Thefefilms,in many Flies, were {0 thin, that, like feveral 
other plated:bodies (mention’d in the ninth Obfervation) they afforded 
all varieties of fantaftical or tranfient colours (the reafon of which Thave 
- here endeavoured to explain) they feem'd’to receive their nourifhment 
from the {talks or wires, which feem'd'to be hollow, and neer the uppet 
part of the wing LL feveral of them feem'd jointed, the fhape of which 
will fufficiently appear by the black lines'in the fecond Figure of the 
26. Scheme, which is a delineation of one of thofe wings expanded dt 
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-tedtly to'the e 1 DOF + pein 1 Hats Qlodi io Siu SF 
“Allthehinder part of ts bod iscover'd with a moft catious blue ‘fhit | 
ning armour, looking exaétly like a polifh’d piece of hee) brought tothat | 
blue colour by annealing, all which armour is very thick beftuck with 
abundance “of tapering ‘brifles, fiich as grow on its back, as is(vifible 
enough ‘by the Figure. » G 5 beter 
Nor was the infide of this creature lefs beautifull then its outfideé; for 
cutting off a part of the belly, and then viewing it, to {eé if I-could dif- 
cover any Vellels, fuch as are to be found in @ greater Animals, amd even 
in Snails exceeding manifeftly,I found,much beyond my expettation:that 
there were abundance of branchings of Milk-white vefléls.no lefs curiots 
then the branchings of veins and arteries in bigger terreftiial Anjimals,in 
one of which,I found two notable branches, joining their two main ftocks, 
as it were, into one common duu 3 now, to what veins or atteriés thele 
Veflells were aralogws, whether to the ver porta, or the aeferaich vef 
fells, or the like, or indeed, whether they were veins and arteriés, Or 0a/@ 
lattea, properly fo called, I am not hitherto able'to determine, ‘having 
not yet made fufficient enquiry; but in all particulars, there feemsnct to 
be any ion lefs of curious contrivance in thefe Infeéts, chen in-thofe 
Jarger terreftrial Animals, for I had never feen any more curious branch- 
ings of Veffells, then thofeI obferv’d in two or three OF thefe Flies this 
Opened. | , 
_ It isa ereature active and nimble, fo’as there are very few creatures 
like it, whether bigger or fmaller, in fo much, that ‘it’ will expe ft 
avoid a {mall body, though coming on it exceeding fwiftly, andifirfecs _ 
any thing approaching it, which it fears, it prefently fquats down, 4s It. 
were,that it may be the more ready for its rife, sais be At 
_ | « Nor isit lefs hardy in the Winter, then ‘active in the Summer, induring 
all the Frofts, and furviving till the next Summer, notwithftanding the 
od ' itt 
