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Wings; the two formoft fomewhat longer then the two hinidermoft, ‘and 
-the two fhorter about halfan Inch long, each of which four Wings feem'd — 
t0 confit of two {malllong Feathers, very Curioufly tufted, or haired!’ on 
leach fide, with purely white, and exceedingly fine and {mall Haires, pro- 
‘portion d to the ftalks ‘or ftems, out of which they grew, much like the 
tufts of along ‘wing-feather of fome Bird, and their {talks or {tems ‘were, 
like thofe, bended backwards and downwards, as may be plainly feen by 
the draughts of them in the Figure. 
Obferving one of thefe in my A4crofcope,I found, in the firft place, that 
all the Body,Legs, Horns and the Stalks of the Wings, were covered over 
with Vatious kinds of curious ‘white Feathers, which did; with handling 
or touching, eafily rubb off and fly about, in fo much that looking on my 
Fingers; wih which I had handled this Moth,’ and perceiving on themlit- 
tle white {pecks, I'found by my Aécrofope, that they were feveral ofthe 
finall Feathérs of this little creature, that ftuck up and down in the ra- 
gofities ofmy Skin. | - < : | ) , “ z = : é 
~/ Next, found that underneath thefe Feathers, the pretty Infect was co- 
vered all over witha crufted Shel), like other of thofe Animals; but with 
‘one'much thitiner and tenderer. ees : ates alte 
WOE hirdly, Tfound, as in Birds alfo isnotable, it por aid and ap- 
‘propriate kinds of Feathers, that covered feveral parts’of its body. 
Fourthly; furveying the parts of its body, with amore accurate and 
better Magnifying Aécrofcope, 1 found that the tufts or haires ofits Wings 
were nothing elfe but a congeries, or thick fet clufter of fmall wimina or 
twiggs, refembling a {mall twigg of Birch, ftript or whitned, with which 
Brufhes are ufually made, to beat out or brufh off the duft from Cloth 
and Hangings. Every one of the ewiBes or branches that compofed the — 
Bruth of the Feathers, appeared in this igger Magnifyi io Glafs (of which 
E F which reprefents 7; part of an Inch, is the feale, asG is of the Jeffer, 
which’ts only 3) like the figure D.'- The Feathers ‘alfo that covered a 
part of his Body, and were interfperfed among the brufh of his Wings, I 
found,in the bigger Magnifying Glaf, of the fhape A, confifting of a ftalk 
or ftem in the middle, and a feeming’ tuftednefs or brufhy part oreach 
fide. The Feathers that cover'd moft part of his Body and the ftatk of 
his wings, were, in the fame aetrhe much of the figure B, appeating of 
the fhape of a {mall Feather, and {eemed tufted : thofe which covered 
the Horns and fmall parts of the Leggs, through the fame AZicrofeope, ap- 
eardofthe fhapeC, Whether the tufts of any or all of thefe fmall 
eathers, confifted of {uch component particles as the Feathers of Birds, 
{ much doubt, becaufe I find that Nature does not alwaies kesp, Ste 
rate after the fame ‘method , “in fmaller “and bigger creatures: ! 
of this, we have particular Inftances in the Wings of feyeralereatures. _ 
For whereas, in Birds of all kinds, it compofes each of the Feathers of 
which its Wing confifts, of fach an exceeding curious and moft admirable 
and ftupendious texture, as I elfe where thew, in the Obfervations on a 
Feather we find itto alter its method quite, inthefabrick of the Wings 
oftthefe minute creatures, compofing fome of thin extendedmembranes 
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