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The Worms in my Glafs Tube, which was about a 
Foot long, and a Finger wide, faftened themfcl'/es to 
the fides of the Gh(s, and lay iliil all the Winder ; the 
Web that covered them was lb thio, that I could with 
my Microfcops perceive a (mall motion of theii- Heads 
through ir. 
On the ic^th. of Jpnl following they began to look 
red, and fomewhat ftidrter than before; on the jo/Z'. 
they were redder, and changed into Aurelias. 
On the 2 3<^. of May they were of a dark red, and 
on the next day one of them was changed into a faiall 
Moth, leaving its ure-icfs Skin, cr Winter- coat. This 
Moth had white Wings with black fpecks; my Micro- 
fcope difcovered thefe Wings to be covered on both fides 
with Feathers, whereof fome were tipt with black. The 
Moth had four Wings, each Wing adorned with three 
rows of Feathers very long in proportion to the little 
Creature, and each row increafing in fize above the 
other • every Feather was not round at the end, but in- 
dented Tooth-like. Thefe Moths are reprefented Fig, 2, 
A A, and the Skins they left. Fig, 3. F of the Na- 
tural fize. 
Od the %$th, of May \ put into feverai Tubes a Male 
and Female Moth, which might be known afander from 
the Males being fmaller ; and afrer they had coypled, I 
opened foma of the Females, and found becween Fifty 
and Seventy Eggs in each. 
On t\\^^6th. I found in my fore-menriooed Tube 
fix Moths flying ; on the zyth, I found one Moth had 
laid nigh Seventy Eggs, each of the fize of a fmall Sand, 
and of the thape of an Hens-Egg. The manner of 
laying their Eggs is by flretching out their hinder p3rt, 
as Fig^ 4. from A to then thrufting out the Parr, 
BCD, and out of that the Part CDE, which Extre- 
mity is befet with feveral hairs, as at E is reprefented : 
This Part 5 C D £ was feveral times put out and in,and 
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