6l4 VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1733. 



gh 37m 30^ 'Yi^Q eclipse was greatest, the lucid part of the sun's dia- 

 meter measuring 420 parts, whereof the sun's diameter 

 measured 231 1 . So that the eclipse was g^ digits. 



6 46 O The cusps were horizontal. 



7 28 23 The eclipse ended. 



The same Eclipse observed at Norton- Court, by Mr. Stephen Gray; and at 

 Otterden-Place, by Granville IVheler, Esq. both in Kent. N° 429, P- 1'4. 



At Norton -Court, near Feversham in Kent. 



Apparent time. 



At 5*^ 49"' 15' The beginning. 



6 40 O Greatest obscuration, g\'. 



7 32 30 The end. 



Mr. Wheler, at Otterden-Piace, near Lenham in Kent, observed the begin- 

 ning at 5'^ 49"' 0% and the end at 7"^ SI"" 49\ 



An Observation of the same Eclipse. By Mr. J. Milner, at Yeovil in Somerset- 

 shire. N°429, p. 116. 



The beginning at 5*' 34"'. 



The end at 7 1 -Ji. 



Some Eclipses of Jupiter s Satellites observed at Bologna. By Sig. Manfredi. 

 N°429, p. 1:7. 



An Account of a remarkable Generation of Insects ; also of an Earthquake ; and 

 of an Explosion in the Air. By Mr. Rd. Lewis, of Annapolis in Maryland. 

 N° 429, p. 119. 



About the latter end of June 1732, Mr. Lewis procured some leaves of the 

 fly-tree, so called from the vast swarms of flies observed to issue from it, on 

 which were fixed tough little bags, as large as the husk of a filbert, of a dusky 

 green colour. On cutting them open, a fly like a gnat, comes out ; and he 

 could discover no more, till looking with a glass, he could discern sometliing 

 moving among the bluish pulp, and after a while observed that it contained 

 many red grubs, very small, without wings : he bound up the nidus, and next 

 morning the grubs had gotten bluish wings, and their body was of a grayish 

 colour ; there was a great number of them, but they soon flew away. Both the 

 bark and leaf of the tree resembles a male mulberry. Among all the excrescences 



