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power fo io fix them, that they might remain vifible without the 

 body, I could not fucceed. 



This organ C D E F G, is fomewhat larger than it here appears, 

 becaufe it is bent forward, and, being viewed from behind, the 

 bend in it could not be deftribed, therefore I gave the hmner ano- 

 ther microfcope, exhibiting a tide view of the fame, and a Iketch or 

 outline of its curvature is to be feen at fig. 18, M N O. 



D K and E L are the two horns with which this organ or trunlv 

 is furniflied. 



After this, I again looked over eight or ten of my apple trees, 

 and, in the fpacc of half an hour, I collected thirty of thefe infcds, 

 which I Ihook from the leaves into a large glafs tube, that they 

 might not be hurt by my touching them, and I might be able to 

 obferve how long they could live without food, and alfo, whether 

 they would lay any eggs. While taking them, I obferycd, that 

 not only, upon the leall motion, they drew up their feet and con- 

 tracted their trunks and fo fell down, but that fome of them did 

 the fame upon being only touched by my hand, or by the glafs. 

 - But what I moll wondered at was, that two third parts of thefe 

 infedts which I found on the trees, were coupled together, and I 

 could not conceive how fvich f^nalj animals could find each other out 

 in fo large a fpace, and the rather, becaufe in a tree, the circum- 

 ference of which was more than thirty-fix feet, I only found four 

 or fix of them, but all in couples. 



Obferving that thefe infeds could run along or {land for a long 

 time on any fide of the glafs, even with their feet upwards, I was 

 defirous to examine accurately the formation of their fee^, and, in 

 this little creature, I faw fuch perfeftly formed limbs, enabling it 

 to adhere to the glafs, and to run along upon its furface, as dif^ 

 tin6lly, as I had ever fcen in other larger flying animals. 



Fig. 19, P Q R S T, reprefents almofi a fourth part of one of the 

 legs, confifl;ing of four dillindl joints : the other part of the leg has 

 only two joints. At R and S, are two claws or nails, whiph are 



