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parent and oblong, but the fore part was covered willi fome ex- 

 traneous matter, which endeavoui-ing to wipe away, I broke it off 

 from the hind part. 



I was, howe\ er, hereby induced to make a further fearch, not doubt- 

 ing, that I (hould find fome of thefe infe(^l:s of a large fize, but I 

 could not difcover any of them among the leaves whofe membranes 

 were entirely itripped of their contents ; whence I concluded, that 

 the maggots, when grown large, had either quitted the leaves or un- 

 dergone a change in their form, whereupon I fat about examining 

 thofe white leaves which lay next the others that were found, as alio 

 thofe leaves which were in great part, but not wholly, confumed ; 

 fix or feven of whic'i I had brought with me ; and among thele, I 

 found a few animalcules of the fame fliape with the one I laft men- 

 tioned ; thefe were not only larger than the former, but their bodies 

 were of a reddifli colour, and I judged that this colour proceeded 

 from their feeding on the oily matter, of which the Mace, for the 

 greatefl part confifts, and that the former tranfparent animal had died 

 before it had fed on that coloured fubflance. 



At fig. 15, is fhewn one of thefe maggots, of the fame fize as it 

 appeared to the naked eye ; this was one of tlie largcfl that I liad 

 met with in my fearch. 



The difcovery of thefe maggots very much excited my admiration, 

 becaufe I had never feen any thing like them in the Nutmeg, and 

 the more, becaufe thefe maggots feed and fubfifl: on the oil in the 

 Mace, of which oil the Nutmegs are alio in part compofed. But the 

 reafon why thofe animalcules, which feek their food in the Nutmeg 

 are not found in the Mace, is, in my opinion this, that thofe which 

 devour the Nutmeg avoid the oily matter it contains and only feed on 

 thofe parts of the nut where there is little or none of that oil. 



Having thus difcovcred the maggots (defcribcd in fig. 16,) which 

 feed on that thin matter or fubflance found within the membranes of 



