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Another circumftance appeared to me particularly worthy of note, 

 that I law about fifteen of thefe Animalcules, whofe bodies were fo 

 fwelled, that they feemed almoil globular : fome of them were 

 dead, others moved but little, and upon opening them, I found 

 their Ikins very tough, compared with others of the fpecies, and 

 on the inhdes I found no appearance of any young nor any bowels, 

 but only a white thick maggot, which took up almoil all the fub- 

 ftance of their bodies. 1 put twelve of thefe, fome of them living, 

 others dead, into a glafs, and in a little time they were all dead. 

 But after eight days, namely tlie 24th of June, I opened one of 

 them, and took out of it a hving maggot, which lived for the 

 fpace of thi'ee days in the glafs wherein I put it : this maggot ap- 

 peared to me, like thofe produced from the eggs of ants ; for like 

 thofe maggots, it feemed incapable of moving from place to place, 

 as it had no other motion than what confilled in extending and con- 

 tracing its body in a fmall degree. 



I was atlonifhed at this fpectacle, refpe^ling which I could form 

 no other conjedlure, than that thefe Animalcules had been impreg-^ 

 nated by a female ant laying its egg in the hind part of the animal's 

 body, which is the only way I could conceive that the maggot 

 from an ant's egg could be found in that place. 



I opened feveral others of thefe Animalcules, at different timeSj 

 and found maggots in all of them ; but I could not, in any inftance, 

 extract the maggot without injuring it. I left fome of thefe Ani- 

 malcules which were dead in the glafs, and after a few days, I 

 found that the maggots within them were dried up. 



On the 20th of June, I found on a plum tree, on which I could 

 not for three days before difcover any, a great number of green 

 Animalcules, the largeft of them about the lize of a common loufe, 

 and with which fome of the leaves were fo covered, that their lur- 

 face could not be feen, and this for the molt part by Animalcules 

 but lately brought forth. 



