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ding all my endeavours I could keep thetii nd longer alive 
than Twelve dayes. When I plkedabout the half 6f4 
'irnall F/)^^ in the glafs by the i^<?mx for their Feod i the 
part of the F/^> caufed ^xxc\\ z steam on the glafs that the 
Warms htm^hmy were intangled in themoifture, and re- 
mained immoveable till they died. When the ^om^ 
were Twelve daies old, they were abpur the length of 
&xm Eg^ and the thickneft of One, Since I could bring 
xx'^ XiO Worms y Itookfome which I thought had attained 
their full growth, and obfcrved the lame td fpend Eight 
or Ten daiesin 5|?m;/^>2^ their J^^^^ and then they ftript of 
'their sl^ and became a Nyf^^fe Thefe ivy;7^fojlfaw 
^kove on the Fourth day^ tfao they were Clear^nd White 
on the Sixth they were Red about the Head : on the 
Tenth they broke their Cafey which was a very thin Ski n> 
and leapt into the Glafs liveing there without Food for 
4he^fpace of Seven dayes ^ 
^Jdt alfb t(!)ok fome flefla from the Breaft of a Lmfe^ 
and found the fleJb Threds of the Came make as thofe oi the 
Flea. 
I took alfo the flefli from the feet of a Gnat, and found 
(that of the fame make with the former. Bur perceiving 
th4 Legs and Body of the Gnat to be furni(hed with very 
fine Feathers > I have eaufed them to be dratwn as Fig. 3«. 
The alfo of the G;/^^ being adorned with Fe^^^/^^rj-^ I 
have drawn that too as Fig.4. which is a Wing as it appears 
to the naked Eye. Figv 5, A B G is the fame reprefented 
Mii^larger^^^^p fb iPioW that not only the whole 
^rcWnlMeftc^M'theW^ as here 5^ i^t^C isbefet with 
great and /mall Feathers as Fig. 6/ But alfo the iV^rt/^j* that 
ttiffeh the Wifig ^ as DDDD: The Film of the Wing which 
^y ^etiweett the j^7>/t^xBD)feemeth by xMMicrofco^e to be 
^feU bPa ^rfetitnaDy fe^^^ a ftri€ter Exa- 
mihkioflj'theyarejfeally ffttall hmes^^"^g/]i^ke^e a be- 
giiiing Ms iriade to ireprefent the whole Wing : A B C are 
^ f mhers-y and ADEC are the haires oti the Film. 
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