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the evening, I find that to be the very pofture J22. 

 in which they all repofe themfelvcs in the TENTHREDO 



night! 



Monday morning, fix o'clock.=-^In the fame 

 pofture ; but had moved upon the paper in the 

 night. In the day> it Hood on its legs as 

 ufual ! At two in the afternoon Mr. Samuel 

 Barber faw it. About five, it cleaned its 

 wings ; and this afternoon feemed more alert 

 than it had been fince its hpad had been taken 

 off, 



Tuefday morning As much alive as before. 

 About nine it cleaned its wings, and feemed 

 remarkably brifk. About two, I found it 

 upon its back ; -endeavoured to place 

 if upon its legs ; but it could not expand 

 them, though it was ftill evidently alive. 

 Nine in the evening, it appears to be quite dead. 

 But, afto,nifhing to reflect op, this fly has lived 

 upwards of three days without its head ! 

 during which time feveraj of its cotempo- 

 raries have died with their heads on \ fo that it 

 may be a moot point, whether cutting off its 

 head ihortened or lengthened its days ! Its 

 life mult have been merely vegetative ; and 

 the care of its wings pure inftindl *. 



* \\~ednefJay morning, the whole dead, except live or 

 x, Thurfdny morning, not one alive ! 



