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thofe kinds of cruffaceous creatures, efpecially about their bellies, and 
feein’d of three kinds; the head F feem’d cover’d with a kind of fealy 
fhell, the thorax with two {mooth fhells, or Rings, G G, and the belly 
with eight knobb’d ones. 'I could not certainly find whether it had under 
thefe lait thells any wings, but I fufpect the contrary ; for Ihave not found 
_ any wing'd Infect with eight leggs, two of thofe leggs being always con- 
' verted intowings, and, for the moft part, thofe that have but fix, “have 
wings. 
fi This creature, though I could never meet with) more’ then one of 
| them, and focould not make fo many examinations of it as otherwife I 
would,Idid notwithftanding,by reafon of the great curiofity that appear’d 
to me in its fhape, delineate it, to fhew that, in all likelihood, Nature had 
crouded together into this very minute Infect, as many, and as excellent 
contrivances, as into the body of a very large Crab, which exceeds it in 
bulkperhaps,fome Millions of times ; for as to all the apparent parts,there 
is a greater rather then a lefs multiplicity of parts,each legg has as many 
parts, and as many joints asa Crabs, nay,and as many hairs or brifles; and 
the like may be in all the other vifible parts; and tis very likely,that the 
internal curiofities are not lefg excellent : It being a general rule in Na- | 
ture’s proceedings, that. where the begins to difplay any excellency, if | 
the fubje&t be further fearch’d into, it will manifeft, that there is not le& 
curiofity in thofe parts which our fingle eye cannot reach, then in thofe 
which are more obvious. Hil ¢ 
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Obferv, L1I. Of the fmall Situer-colour'd Book-wormn. 
“A Samong greater Animals there are many that are fealed, both for 
£ & ornament and defence, fo are there not wanting fuch alfo among the 
lefier bodies of Infects, whereof this little creature gives usan Inftance. 
It is a fmall white Silver-thining Worm or Moth, which I found much con- 
verfant among Books and Papers, and is fuppos’d to be that which cor 
rodes and eats holes through the leaves and covers; it appears to the 
naked eye, afmall gliftering Pearl-colour’d Moth,which upon the remov- 
ing of Books and Papers in the Summer, is often obferv'd very nimbly to 
{cud, and pack away to fome lurking cranney, where it may the better 
peat it felf from any appearing dangers. Its head appears bigg and 
unt, and its body tapers from it towads the tail, fmaller and {maller,be- 
ing fhap‘d almoft like a Carret. a ts SUG 
This the A4crofcopical appearance will more plainly manifeft,which'ex- 
_ hibits,in the third Figure of the 33. Scheme, aconical body, divided into 
_ fourteen feveral partitions,being the appearance of fo many feveral fhels, 
' or fhields that cover the whole bod > every of thefe thells are againco- 
verd or tiled over with a onaltitiite of thin tranfparent fcales, which} 
Wh from the multiplicity of their reflecting furfaces,make the whole Animal 
mo appear of a perfect Pearl-colour. | od sloda Es 3 
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