14 TREATISE ON THE 
dences of design in the All-wise Contriver, 
and of the admirable adaptation of its parts 
to their several uses. The body of the in- 
sect is about half an inch long, of a blackish 
brown color, which deepens with age, and 
is wholly covered with close set hairs, which 
assist greatly in collecting the farina of 
flowers. Tearing open the anthers of the 
plant on which it has alighted, and rolling 
its little body in the bottom of the corolla, 
the insect rapidly brushes off the farina, 
moistens it with its mouth, and passes it 
from one pair of legs to another, till it is 
safely lodged, in the form of a kidney-shaped 
pallet, in a spoon-like receptacle in its thigh, 
to be afterwards noticed. These hairs de- 
serve to be particularly remarked, on ac- 
count of their peculiar formation, being fea- 
ther-shaped, or rather consisting each of a 
stem with branches disposed around it, and, 
therefore, besides their more effectually re- 
taining the animal heat, peculiarly adapted 
for their office of sweeping off the farina. 
The head, which is of a triangular shape 
