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1 PHE at RAW -COLOUR’ D.C HINCRH: 
mittee spn ee stele ID. A. 
Th. 
Each wing is compofed of one : diftine ‘undivided feather. 
Plate 9. 
This is a creature very ftrange in its nature, and hiftory; and 
' which once came as ftrangely before me. A ftudious gentleman, very 
fubject to the head-ach, which he, and his phyfician, both attributed 
to great attention ; {neezing one day with violence, as he was writ- 
ing, faw fome atoms a moment afterwards upon a ‘heet of white 
~ paper that lay upon his table ;. and they plainly moved : he doubled up 
the paper, and brought it to me: when we laid a parcel of thefe 
moving particles before the lucernal microfcope, they appeared of 
the fize and figure reprefented at Plate 9; and were in continual mo- 
tion; vibrating their Antlers, fhaking their Wings, and turning up 
their. Tail to their Heads, in the manner of Earwigs, but with an 
incredible {wiftnefs. 
"Twas palpable they had been difcharged from his nofe ; and ’tis 
very eafy to fee whence they were thrown, and to underftand how 
they might have caufed intolerable pain, while they were thus 
-raifing and moving their irritating hairs, and feathers, upon a part 
where the very fubftance of the brain is almoft naked. 
I had feen the fame Species inhabiting the Flowers of the Plant 
Mignonette ; and on afking, found he had that Plant in his chamber. 
The Heap of this creature is lemon tcalound. 
Its Eyes are of a delicate blue. 
The Studs over them deep black. 
Its Antlers are of the paleft brown, but ruddy at the bafe of each Joint. 
_ The Peelers are-pale, and {mall. 
Its TRuNK is of a pale ftraw-colour. 
The Seutcheon has a tint of greenifh, 
Its Bopy is very pale ftraw-colour. : 
The Rings dividing it are whitifh. 
its LeGs are pale brown, but deeper at the joints. 
Its WrncGs are whitith, with a dufk of brown. 
Its Tar is amber-colour’d, 
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