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to equal, if not exceed, both the foremen tion'd 

 Kinds. 



The creepmg InfeBs that never come to be 

 wing'd, tho' for Number they may fall fliort of 

 the flying or winged, yet are they alfo very nu- 

 merous ; as by running over the feveral Kinds 

 I could eafily demonftrate. Supppfing then there 

 be a Thoufand feveral Sorts of Infedte in this 

 Ifland and the Sea near it, if the fame Propor- 

 tion holds between the Infedls native in England^ 

 ann thofe of the reft of the World, as doch be- 

 tween Plants domejiick and exotick^ (that Is, as 

 I guefs, near a Decuple) the Species of Infects 

 in the whole Earth (Land and Water) will 

 amount to loooo, and I do believe they rather 

 exceed than fall {hort of that Sum. Since the 

 Writing hereof, having this Summer, Ann. 169 1, 

 with fome Diligence profecuted the* Hiftory of 

 our Englijh InfedVs, and making Collections of 

 the feveral Species of each Tribe, but particu- 

 larly and efpecially of the Butt erf ics^ both no- 

 durnal and diurnal, I find the Number of fuch 

 of rhefe alone as breed in our Neighbourhood 

 (about Braintree and Notely in Ejjex) to exceed 

 the Sum I laft Year afiign'd to all England^ ha- 

 ving my felf obfcrv'd and defcrib'd about 200 

 Kinds great and fmall, many yet remaining, as 

 I have good Reafon to believe, by me undifco- 

 ver'd. This I have, fmce the writing hereof, 

 found troie in Experience, having every Year 

 obferv'd not a few new Kinds: Nor do I think 

 that, if I fhould live 20 Years longer, I fljould 

 by- my utmoft Diligence and Induftry in fearch^ 



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