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rliat I might caufe a drawing to be made of fuch one of tlicm as was 

 the mofl perfe6l, becaufe all that I found were not only dead, but fo 

 dried, that the leaft touch would break their bodies, or at leafl their 

 feet. 



I have already given ^t fg. ^^, a drawing of one of tliefe maggots, 

 of the natural fize; Fig. 23, EFGHIKLMNO, rcjM'cfents the lame 

 maggot as feen through the microfcope : the body of tiiis creature 

 is formed with many joints or riiigs, alfo with fix fmall feet, fur- 

 niihed with cm^ious nails, the extremities of which nails arc indented 

 or notched, as fhewn at G and N. 



In the lower part of the body of this animal, as well on the belly 

 as on the back, there appears an uncommon number of blood veilels, 

 which, on each fide of the body at H I and ML are the thickeft and 

 largelt, and leem to come from the inner part of the body : thefe 

 blood vefTels are divided into various exceedingly minute branches, 

 leveral of which, proceeding from H to M, and from M to H there 

 meet, and arc again united, which not only appears in the branches 

 about H and M, but alfo through the whole body, though the limner 

 could not reprefent them all. 



In the head of this creature, fo many organs appeared, that they 

 could not all be copied in the drawing. 



At O and F are reprefented, two prettily fliaped horns, made with 

 joints, and covered with hairs : at E is the mouth, or rather two 

 teeth, fomething like pincers, with which the maggot, as I judge 

 bites into the leaves of the Nutmeg on which it feeds, and fcrapes 

 off the fubftance they contain ; within the fkin at P P are two other 

 organs with which the head of this maggot is furniflied. 



I know very well, that thefe fmall animals are called bloodlefs, a 

 name given to them by thofe, who, I fuppofe could not difcover 

 either the blood or the blood vedcls, but this miftake I attribute only 

 to their want of better information. 



