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to make a drawing of, but as it was impoflible for him to draw all the 

 minute parts of it, he drew it without the feet, as is fhewn injig. 8, 

 KL.* The fore part of this maggot is provided with fix feet, which 

 fometimss could be difcerned when the animal lay flat on its belly, 

 and thefe, with part of the body are fliewn atj?:^. 9, MN. In the 

 hind part are various organs afli fling in its motion. This maggot, 

 although, when newly hatched it appeared no longer to the naked 

 eye than is defcribed in the center of the circle at /^. 10, was yet 

 twice the length of the egg from which it was produced. 



As I obferved fome of thele young maggots to be dying, I put 

 fome grains of wheat into the glafs, and foon afterwards the living 

 ones difappeared, whence I concluded that they had found their way 

 into the v»heat, and in three or four days time I faw their excrements 

 fcattered about the glafs. 



I have often contemplated the fliells of the eggs from vvhence thefe 

 maggots proceeded, and obferved vefl'els in them in the nature of 

 net- work, which I could not diftinguifh while the eggs were full. A 

 drawing of one of thefe is given at^^r. 1 1,. RSTV, but as thefe eggs 

 are exceedingly minute, this drawing was made from a microfcope of 

 greater magnifying power than that from which the former figures 

 are drawn. STV is the broken fliell of the egg in the part where 

 the young maggot crept out. 



The moths I have been defcribing are verv pretty obje6ls to be- 

 hold, the wings, which are four in number, being white, fprinked 

 all over with black fpots ; and on examining them by the micro- 

 fcope I found that this whitenefs proceeded from the white feathers 

 on the wings, and that the black fpots v/ere caufed by other feathers 

 which were black at the edges. Some thoufands of thefe feathers 



* This figure does not feem taken wi.h fo much exaftnefs as is generally found in thofe given 

 by Mr. Leeuwenhock, therefore the Tranflatorhas caufed a drawing from one of the maggots 

 when full grown, to be made of the fame fize it appears to the naked eye, and this is to be ken 

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