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Thofe which have four feathery wings. 
Y feathery wings, we underftand fuch as areform’d, in appearance, 
as of the feathers of birds: each wing confifting of only one 
{uch feather; tho’ fometimes fplit, or divided. 
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The ANTLERS are compos’d of a few oval joints; and the extreme 
one runs out intoa point. 
The Tait is fplit, and hairy. 
The Featuers, which are plac’d as wings, confift of jointed ribs, 
and thin flat plates fet regularly on them. 
The Chinches are a race of Infects fo extremely fmall, that they 
have in a great meafure efcaped obfervation. Few of thofe who have 
ftudied thefe fmall objects, have feen any of them; and from fuch 
as have, very little of their nature is to be learn’d, for they have 
only cafually come before the eye: and. thofe microfcopes, by the 
affiftance of which they have been examined, and figured here, have 
not been known till lately. 
The creatures in the Infe& world, to which the Chinches ap- 
proach the neareft, are the feather-wing Moths ; but from thefe they 
differ abundantly in the ftructure of their Antlers, and the fhape of 
their body, their motions, and peculiar formation of their Tails. 
Thofe Moths have been called Phalene Alucite; and the latter term 
therefore alone feems the moft familiar and intelligible name for thefe. 
The feathers which compofe, or rather which are the wings of 
the Chinches, tho’ they very much refemble the plumes of birds in 
appearance, are in reality very different, and have nothing truly 
feathery in them. They arg compos’d of a hollow jointed rib, not 
unlike fome of the Corallines ; and the hairs, or plumes, as they feem, 
which rife from them, are flat, thin, conic {cales., 
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