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I N SEC T S. 



C L A S S II. 



Thofe which have four feathery wings. 



BY feathery wings, we underftand fuch as areform'd, in appearance, 

 as of the feathers of birds : each wing confifting of only one 

 fuch feather; tho' fometimes fplit, or divided. 



GENUS I. 

 CHINCH. 



ALLUCITA, 

 Plate 9. 



The Antlers are compos'd of a few oval joints j and the extreme 



one runs out into a point. 

 The Tail is fplit, and hairy. 

 The Feathers, which are plac'd as wings, eoniift of jointed ribs, 



and thin flat plates fet regularly on them. 



The Chinches are a race of Infedts fo extremely fmall, that they 

 have in a great meafure efcaped obfervation. Few of thofe who have 

 ftudied thefe fmall objects, have feen any of them ; and from fuch 

 as have, very little of their nature is to be learn'd, for they have 

 only cafually come before the eye : and thofe microfcopes, by the 

 affiflance of which they have been examined, and figured here, have 

 not been known till lately. 



The creatures in the Infect world, to which the Chinches ap- 

 proach the nearer!, are the feather- wing Moths -, but from thefe they 

 differ abundantly in the ftru&ure of their Antlers, and the fhape of 

 their body, their motions, and peculiar formation of their Tails. 

 Thofe Moths have been called Phalenae Alucitae ; and the latter term 

 therefore alone feems the moft familiar and intelligible name for thefe. 



The feathers which compofe, or rather which are the wings of 

 the Chinches, tho' they very much referable the plumes of birds in 

 appearance, are in reality very different, and have nothing truly 

 feathery in them. They are compos'd of a hollow jointed rib, not 

 unlike feme of the Corallines ; and the hairs, or plumes, as they feem, 

 which rife from them, are flat* thin, conic fcales, 



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