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the fling. The anus and the whole body, when viewed with a 

 fhallow magnifier, appear pun&uated ; thefe points, when ex- 

 amined in the microfcope, appear hexagonal, as in the plate ; 

 and in the center of each hexagon a fmall hair is to be feen ; the 

 feet are yellow, the hinder thighs very thick and toothed, and 

 alfo form a groove for the next joint; they are yellow, with 

 black fpots : it is found in Italy, Switzerland, France, and Ger- 

 many. Fig. 1, Plate XVII. mews it very much magnified. Fig. 

 2 is a fide view of it lefs magnified. Fig. 3 is the object of it's 

 real fize. 



Of the Lobster Insect, delineated Fig. 1 and 6, 



Plate XVIII, 



This extraordinary little creature was found by my ingenious 

 friend, Mr. John Adams, of Edmonton ; he was at the New Inn, 

 Wahham Abbey, where it was fpied by fome labouring men who 

 were drinking their porter. The man who firft perceived it 

 thought it was of an unufual form ; this occafioned a nicer in- 

 flection, and it was fuppofed to be a loufe with unufual long 

 horns ; others thought it was a mite. This occafioned a debate, 

 which drew the attention of my friend, who obtained the infect 

 from them for further obfervation. Mr. Martin has given fome 

 account of it in the third volume of " The Young Gentleman 

 and Lady's Philofophy." Mr. Adams favoured me with the infect, 

 that an accurate drawing might betaken from it, which I thought 

 would be highly pleafing, not only to the lovers of microfcopic 

 obfervations, but alfo to the entomologift. It appears to be 

 quite a diftinct fpecies from the phalangium cancroides of 

 Linnaeus, of which a good drawing has been given by Hook, 

 A - Roefel, 



