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The legs arc long and flender, in number fix, and having fix joints ; 

 the feet are feathered, in a manner refembling the fcales of a fifh, with 

 many bridles interfperfed : the wings are edged with a fringe of feathers ; 

 under each wing appears a projecting body, thought to be a poife or ba- 

 lance dj rounding at its extremity and under the wing. The belly of 

 the creature is long, in nine divifions ; fix of them tranfparent, the other 

 three at the end opake. A fmall, clear, white part g is fecn beating like 

 the heart in large animals. 



The FEATHER-WINGED MOTH, magnified. 



This is a fmall white moth, fometimes found on the nettle : it has 

 four wings, each divided, very elegantly fringed on both fides with ex- 

 ceeding fmall white hairs, their ftems inclining backward and downward. 

 The body, legs, horns, and Items of the wings, are covered over with 

 feathers of different fliapes and fizes, which come off when touched. A, 

 reprefents one of thefe feathers ; B, one of thofe ftalks which fringe the 

 edges of the wings. 



CHEESE MITE, magnified. 



Back. Shape nearly oval, but obtufe ; the back covered with one en- 

 tire Ibell, fo curioufly poliftied that it refleds the piftures of all obje<fts 

 around it. The upper parts of the creature are diftindt fiiells, and ca- 

 pable of being drawn in or thruft outj as is alfo its fnout. 



Belly. This fhcws the under parts of a mite^ the head is fmall, has 

 two eyes ; the mouth refembles that of a mole, appearing red within j has 

 bridles at the fnout j is foaictimes fecn munching and chewing the cud, 

 like a Guinea-pig : has eight legs covered with a very tranfparent fnell ; 

 each has eight joints, and a very (harp hook or claw at the end ; four of 

 thefe legs move the body forward, the other four backward, when necef- 

 (ary : they are male and female, are oviparous, Ihed their (kins feveral 

 times, but never change their forms. 



FINIS. 



