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 * Forster. Novae Infeclorum Spe- 

 eies, centuria prima, o£tavo, I77 1 ' 

 London. A fy ftematic defcription of 

 an hundred fpecies of infecls found in 

 Great Britain, and elfewhere, not in- 

 ferted in the 1 2th edition of Linn<£us's 

 Syflema Naturae. 



S E C T. VI. 



As infetts are endowed with the va» 

 rious powers of creeping, fiying, and 

 fwimming, there is fcarce any place, 

 however remote and obfcure, in which 

 they are not to be found. The great 

 confufion which appeared to the an- 

 tients to arife from their number, made 

 them never dream of reducing them to 

 any fyftem. Swammerdam, that in- 

 defatigable enquirer into nature, ob- 

 ferved that their metamorphofes were 



divided 



