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MicrkocRAPHIA 
may, by being diverfly agitated, or mov'd,by this or that.agent,'orafter 
this of that manner, producé a quite contrary effect : So may it be:with 
thefe moft curious Engineés’of Infect’s bodies; the All-wife God of Nature, 
may have fo ordered and difpofed the little Automatons, that when nou- 
rifhed, aéted, or enlivened ‘by this caufe, they produce one kind of effet, 
or animate fhape, when by another they act Ss another way, and ano- 
ther ‘Animal is produc’d. ‘So may he fo'order feveral materials, as.to 
make them,by dvetal kinds of methods, produce fimilar Automatons.\.', 
7 But to'come to the Defcription of this Infect,as it appears through a.A4- 
crofcopésof which a reprefentation is made in the 28.Scheme. Its head A,-is 
exceeding! {mall, in proportion to its body, confifting of two clufters. of 
pearl'deyes BB, oneach fide of its head, whofe pearls or eye-balls are 
curioufly rang’d like thofe of other Flies; between thefe,in the forehead 
of it, there are plac'd upon two {mall black balls, CC, two long jointed 
horns, tapering towards the top, much refembling the long horns of 
Lobfters,' each ‘of whofe ftems or quills, DD, were brifled or brufhed 
with multitudes of {mall {tiff hairs, ifluing out every way from the feve- 
ral joints, like the {trings or fproutings of the herb Hor/e-tail, which-is 
oft obferv’d, to grow among Corn, othe the whole fhape, it does very 
much refemble thofe brufhy Vegetables, befides thefe; there are two other 
jointed and. brifled horns, or feelers, E E, in the forepart of the head, and 
a probofcis,, .F, underneath,which in fome Gnats are very long, ftreight 
hollow ‘pipes, by which thefe creatures.are able to drill and penetrate 
the fkin, andjthence, through thofe pipes fuck fo much bloud asto {tuff 
their bellies fo full till they be. ready to burft. 3 
_. This {mall head,with its appurtenances, is faftned on bya fhort neck,G, 
to the middle ofthe thorax, whichis large, and feems cafed with a {trong 
black fhel,H. 1K, out of the under part of which, iflue fix long and flender 
legs; LL. LLLL, thapd juft like the legs of Flies, but fpun or drawn out 
longer.and flenderer,which could re exprefs din the Figure,becaufe 
of their great length; and from the upper part, two oblong, but flender 
tran{parent wings, MM, fhaped fomewhat like thofe of a:-Fly,underneath 
each of which, asI have obferv'd al{o in divers forts of Flies, and.other 
kinds of Gnats, was placed a finall’ body, N, much refembling adrop 
of fome tranfparent glutinous fubftance, hardned or cool'd, asit wasal- 
moft ready to fall, for it hasa round knob at the end, which by. degrees 
grows flenderer intoa {mall {tem,and neer the infertion under the wing, 
this {tem again grows bigger ; thee little Pexdulums,asI may fo cali them, 
the litle creature vibrates to and fro very quick when it moves its wings, 
and I have fometimes obferv'd it to move themalfo, whil’ftthe wing lay 
{till, but always their motion feem’d to further the motion of the wing 
ready to follow of what ufe they are, asto the moving of the wing, OF 
otherwife, [have not now time to examine. 3 hex ase a 
_- Its belly.was large,as it is wisely in all Infects, and extended into nine 
lengths or partitions, each of which was cover'd with round armed ring: 
or thells;, fx of which, OP QRS T. were tranfparent, and divers kin 
LF fry 
evem 
Pn 
= of Reriftaltick, motions might be very eafily perceiv'd, whil'{t the Animal 
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