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one under each eye; the feelers are fmall, and of a fine blue colour j the eyes fmall, 

 ftriped and variegated; the body broad and flatted; the (hell finely tuberculated, 

 and of a brown colour, intermixed with fmall yellow fpots; and the leaves of the tail 

 broad, villous, and roundihh. 





ASTACUS 7. Minimus, oculis viridibus t anten- 



n is brevijjimis. 



The fmall Ocean AJlacus. 



This fpecies is very fmall, feldom exceeding half an inch in length: I found one 

 flicking in the prongs of a blubber taken up a few leagues to the north of the 

 Wejlern Iflands. 



ASTACUS 8. Minimus cornutus, [cut Jinduratal ^ fma] , UorneiJJlacus _ 



This little infect is about the fize of the common wood-Ioufe, and generally 

 found, with the timber- worm, in mod pieces of timber that lye for any time in 

 the fea. It is a borer as well as the other, but not fo deftructive. 



Obf. The infects described here under the denomination of Aft 



y be very 



claws 



lly divided into two diftinct genufes; the one to contain thofe that h 



d feet like the 



bs 



the 



fuch as h 



no claws, but are fur 



(hed with defenders of different forms 





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EMERITA 1. Parva agilis t e nigro plumb 



The dark Emer 





This 



enus is eafily diftinguifhed from the Ajlacus y which 

 bles in every other refpect, by the fcuta of the back, which 



ry nearly referri- 

 hefe, is made up 



f feveral pieces, as well as the cover of the tail p 



The body is made, m 



like that of the Onifcus, tapering both way 



d the fcales are pretty even every 



where : the antennee are fimple, and the legs and tail much the fame as in the lob 



iter kind. This fp 



14 



b 







five-eighths of 





EMERITA 2. Major viridis. 



1 he large green Emerita. 



This infect is about an inch and half quarter in length, and proportionately thick 



EMERITA 3. Minima jubfujea, maculis albis 



rotundis variegata. 



The fmall fpotted Emerita. 



This little infect feldom exceeds four-tenths of an inch in length. 



All the fpe- 



cies are found in the ocean, and pretty frequent about the Wejlern IJIanJs. 



SETOURxA 1. Subargentea cauda J'etofa, Jet is bir-\ The Moth, or Book 



Corp 



Jutis. 



blongum, vertical iter jubcomprejTi 



worm. 



dam 



attenuatnm 





Ocuh 



Ant 



lata, ultra pectus diftenfiles. Caput ob 



longum. Peclus ampliatum comprejjum, annulis tribus rigidis teclum. Pe 



des Jt 



tea 



u 



ales 



bdomen produclum, cylindi 



bus 



jet is corpore longioribus, hirjutis y <varie moventib 

 longio ri : 



perjpicuce, 



» 



ed> 



later alibus vero accedunt dua 



efp 



This infect is very common in Jamaica, and extremely dcftrucVi 



books and 



d 



f woollen cloaths. It grows generally from four to feven lines iti leng 



m 



ch 



ge and rlelhv 



bove one in bread 

 The 



the head 



pretty 



d, and the 



(lender and fimple, and generally 



about 



half 





the length of the body. The cover of the bread: feems to be made up of 



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