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ces FG, outof which fprung two legs, yet "tisknown thatthere arc: 
of ‘them that have long ge and fly - Br down in the air: = i 
The third and laft part of its body 111 was bigger and: larger then‘ 
} the other two, unto which it was jeyn'd by:a very {mall middle , ‘and 
_ had-a'kind of loofe thell, or another diftind: part of its body H, which! 
. feem'd to be interpos'd, and to keep the thorax and belly froin touch: 
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The whole body was cas‘ over witha veiy ftrong armoat, and the 
| belly III was covered tikewile, with multitudes of {mall white thinine: 
brifles; the legs, horns, head, and middle partsof its body: were ieftincko 
with hairs alfo, but {maller and darker: » sls Ye 
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» Obferv, L,. Of the wandring Mite... 
'N. September and Ofober, 166%: 1 obferv'd in Oxferdfeveral of thefe 
‘dictle pretty’ Creatures to wander to and fro,and often to travel over 
the plains of my. Window. And in September arid Ofober. 1663.1 ob- 
ferv'd likewife feveral of thefe very fame Creatures traverfing a window. 
at London, and looking without, the window uponthe fubjacent wall, £ 
found whole flocks of the fame kind running to and fro among the {mall 
gtovesand thicketsof green mols, and upon the curioully{preading ve~ 
getable blew or yellow mofs, which is.a kind ofa Muthrome of Jews- 
ear. ; . oi te 80 0) 7 basista binody tbr ashe} 
.  Thefe ‘Creatiires to the naked eye feemed to be a kind of black Mite, 
but much nimbléer:and ftronger then the ordinary Cheefe-Mites; but 
examining ‘themin a Afcrofeope, [found them to be a very fine crufted 
or fhell'd Infect; much like that reprefented in the firlt Figure of the 
threeand) thirtieth Scheme, with a protuberant oval fhell A, indented 
orpitted with an-abundance of {mall pits , all covered over with litle 
. white brifles, whofe: points all directed backwards. Sepinat q i us > 
-Ithad eight legs, each of them provided witha very tharptallon, or 
claw at the end, ‘which this little Animal, inits going, faftned into the 
pores of the body over which it-went. Each of thefe legs were beftuck 
in every: joyntof them with multitudes of {mall hairs, or (if we re- 
{pect the proportion they bore to the bignefs of the leg ) turnpikes, all 
pointing towardsthe claws. : WN DGREL EE 
~The Thorax,or middle partsof the body of this Creature,was exceed- 
ing fmall, in refpedt bothof the head and belly , it being nothing but 
that part which wascovered by the two thells BB, thoughit{feemdto 
-gtow thicker underneath: And indeed, if we confider the great 
variety Nature ufes in proportioning the three parts of the body, 
the Head, Thorax; and Belly ) we fhall not wonder at the {mall pro- 
portion-of this Thorax , nor at the vafter bulk of the belly, for could 
‘we exadtly anatomife this little Creature, and obferve the particular de- 
figns of each part, ‘we thould doubtlefs, as we doin all her more ma- 
-nageable 
