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GENERATION OF INSECTS 
The rest of the body was yellow crossed with lateral 
black stripes. As soon as the fly hatched, it began to 
excrete a kind of White dung. It lived only five days. 
The other five eggs hatched seven days after the first 
and there came out from them as many flies, very different 
from the one which had come out from the first egg, al- 
though they were of the same color, in as much as these 
five were long and slim with their wings very much 
shorter than the body. These wings were not two, but 
four. They had six legs, two of which were very much 
