The colour of this dimunitive infect is a bright red t 

 and when microfcopically examined, the lower part of 

 the body appears to be coated with ftiff white briftles. 

 It feems to be provided with a tubular fnout, which is 

 generally concealed or meathed, but which may fome- 

 times be diftinctly feen. On the top of the head are 

 two little proceffes or {harp implements which turn 

 outwards each way. Thefe infects abound on vegeta- 

 bles, and are generally contracted by Walking in gar- 

 dens, amongft long grafs, or corn fields. 



According to Mr. White in his Hiftory of Selborne, 

 they abound to an uncommon degree in the chalky dif- 

 tricts of that part of Hampfhire. He relates that he 

 has been allured that the warreners in the chalky downs, 

 are fo much infefted by them, and that they fwarm to 

 fo infinite a degree as to difcolour their nets, and give 

 them a reddifh caft, whilft the men are fo bitten as to 

 be thrown into fevers. Vid. Hiif. Selb. p. 89. 



It is a fpecies which feem to have efcaped the notice 

 of fyftematic Naturalifts ; and is not to be found either 

 in LiNNiEus or Fabricius. A flight general defcrip- 

 tion of it is given in Baker's Employment for the Mi- 

 crofcope, accompanied by a figure ; but as the figure 

 was evidently taken from a dried fpecimen, it gives but 

 a very imperfect idea of the animal. 



The oniy way of viewing it to advantage is to place 

 it on a piece of glafs and to lay another piece of glafs 

 immediately upon it, by which means it will bejuft fo 

 much compreffed as to expand all its limbs without be- 

 ing injured j in this lituation it may be viewed, efpeci- 

 ally by a compound microfcope, to the greater! polhblc 

 advantage. 



