MicROGRAPHIA. 
ime Parent might be of a thape very differing from what the off. 
ring, after a little while, by reafon of the fubftance they feed on, or 
e Region (as ‘twere ) they inhabite ; yet perhapseven oneof thefe 
er'd progeny, wandering again from its native foil, and lighting on by 
hance the fame place from whence its prime Parent came, and there fet. 
ing. and planting, may produce a generation of Mites of the fame 
apes and properties with the firft wandring Mite’: And from fomiefach 
ccidents as thefe, I am very apt to think, the moftiforts of Animals, ge- 
erally accounted jpontaneous , have their origination , and all thof{e vax 
ous forts of Mites, that are to be met with up and down ‘in divers pu 
trifying fubftances, may, perhaps be all of the fame kind, and have {prung 
from one and the fame fort of Mitesatthe firft)» ae 
} 2 Obferv.. L Vi Of a {mall Casitiege hatchd on a Vine. 
_ #7 Here is, almoft all the Spring and Summer. time, a certain final, 
_ + round, white Cobweb, as ‘twere, about the bignefs of a Pea,which 
. fticks very clofe and faft to the ftocks of Vines nayl'd againft a warm 
_ wall: being attentively viewed,they feem cover dy upon the upper fide 
of them, witha {mall husk, not unlike the .fcalé, or fhell of a, Wood- 
q sage or Hog-loule, p Salt Infect ufually found about sobre Arood, 
_ which upon touching prefently rouls it felf into. the form of 4 peppers 
corn: Sh Darating Pec of ede from the ftock.; I found them, with 
my Nevedeme. to confit of a fhell, which now feemed more likely tobe 
confifting of abundance of fmall filaments, or {leaves of cobwebs... In 
of which hatching was ufually about the Jatter end.of Jue, or begin: 
hing of July, Ihave often found abundance of {mall brown Eggs, fac 
-asAand B in the fecond Figure of the 36. Scheme, much about the big- 
_nefs of Mites Eggs; and at other times, multitudes of {mall Infects , tha- 
ped exactly like that in the third Figure marked with X. Itshead large, 
almoft half the bignefs of its body, which is ufual in the fetws of moft 
Creatures. It had two {mall black eyes 44, and two {malllong joynted 
and brifled horns 4B, < ‘The hinder part of its body feem‘d to confift of 
Nine fcales, and the laft ended ina forked tay], much like that of a C#- 
_ tio, or Wood loufe, out of which. grew two long hairs; they ran to 
_and fro yery {wiftly, and were much of the bignefs of a common Mite, 
_ but fome of them lefs ; The longeft of them feem'd; not the hundredth 
part of an inch, and the Eggs wfually notabovehalf asmuch.: » They 
te “ aru have fix legs, which were bot emlnanhis I have here deline- 
ted, by reafon they were drawn underitsbody, . gor i 
If the Minute eee were Wood-lice(as indeed from their own fhape 
and frame the fkin,or thell,that grows on theim,one may with great pro- 
bability 
the midit of this, if they were not hatch’d,and runaway before, the time 
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the hafk-of one of thefe Infedts: And the fur feem’d a kind of cobweb, _ 
