8ome AddHiom ofMrXj)i^tt to his former Communications about 
Vegetable Excrefceiicies, aw^ Ichneumon Wafps ; together 
with an Inquiry concerning Tarantula'i^ and a Di/covery ofano^ 
ther M\i%k'^Qnttd In^tdi i tranfmittid to the Publifher from 
York in tm Letters, ofoUob,i6. and 28, 167U 
TheMxtraU of one of thefe Letters : 
THat thisXetter may not be without all matter of Phi- 
lofophy, you liiay take an occafion to put this §uf re 
Co your correfpondents of Italy^ viz. 
Whether th^Tarantula be not a fhalangium ( that is 5 a (?x- 
eyed skipping Spider) as Matthiolus and others feem to tell us > 
if foj whether forae later Authors impofc not on us by giving 
uia Gutt or Figure of a Net or J{eticulum orbiculatum^which our 
Englifh Phalangia are never (that I know of ) obferved to 
weave or make ufe of in hunting ? and whether the perfon 
hit by a Tarantula^ be not ever, when on his feet, difpofed to 
and adually dancing after the nature of a Fhalangium^ which 
never moves but by skippings ^ even as it happens with fuch 
that are bitten by a Mad Dog, who have been fometimes ob' 
ferved to bark like a dog^&c* And if fo^what we are to think 
and credit concerning fiich and fuch Mufical tunes, faid to be 
nioft agreeable and tending to the Cure of perfous bit by a 
Tarantula ? 
But next among other thingsj had the good fortune to pre- 
Scwi yitWilloughby gwin^rxxt the honour of two vifits, with a 
*ueoft or three ^^^K'^^^^ ^ Infed* obfcrvcd by me not 
mmM^k>MQ^s many days before his firft vifit : And though I 
|s?am 74. p.222®. cannot fend you the Infects themfelves j as 
''rLtu'^^' having parted with all I had, yet I will the 
Note, vi%^. 
Septemb.7^ I found in a Sandy Ditch-bank, the firft hol- 
low beyond the Ring-houfes in the high-road to London^* 
bout a mile and an half from TorJ^, a fort of exceeding 
fmall Pifmires (by which note alone I think they may be fut- 
ficie|]rt:ly d^ftinguifti'c from all at leaft that I have feen*) 
Thofe 
