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 and did not lie Itill till that part which was its back was placed iip- 

 permort. Fig. 13, G H, is the ikin put off by the Maggot. 



Two days after 1 had perceived the change 1 have been defcribing 

 in the Maggots, I went to the meadow where I had found them, 

 where I faw a great number of creatures flying about, which our 

 children call Spcketers, and others Maimers ;* these are reprefented 

 at Jig. 14, I K L M. Some of thefe flying animals I brought home 

 in a box, to fee whether they contained any eggs, but I could find 

 none, and the animals feemed to me to be all of the fame fliape. I 

 again fearched in the meadow, to fee whether I could find any dif- 

 ference between the males and females, but without fuccefs. 



In the mean time I faw, flying in my garden, a fingle animal of 

 the fame fliape with the before mentioned ones, with this difference 

 only, that it was fomething larger and its tail tern^inated in a point, 

 whereas thofe of the others were blunted at the end. Tliis animal 

 I opened, and took out of its body a great nmnber of oblong black 

 eggs, infomuch that, on counting thofe taken out of this one animal, 

 they exceeded two hundred. Others of thefe animals I found in the 

 town, all containing eggs, but I did not find one in the town of the 

 fame fliape as thofe which I had taken in the field, which made me 

 doubt whether both were of the fame fpecies. 



In the beginning of September, on going again to the meadow, 

 I did not at firft fee any animal, except thofe I firll defcribed, and 

 which are reprefented at fg 14, but after I had flood there a while 

 I faw one of the fame fort with thofe from which I had taken the 

 eggs. This creature, fettling on the ground at a fmall diflance from 

 me, extended the hind part of its body downwards through the 

 grafs, and remained in that pofture a fliort time : this it did three or 

 four times while I was looking at it, forcing its way between the 

 blades of grafs fo clofely, that when I wanted to take it, I could not 



* From the figure given of thefe animals, it ihoiild fcem that they are what are called, by 

 children in England, father long-legs, and in Summer CTenings arc often fecn in our boufct. 



