( 1 62 I ) 
In my cblcrvations upon the Lime trees, I faw not on- 
ly feveral Animalcula that had Wings, but divers others 
much fmall^i;, and th: i in a gradual Defcent, fo far that 
many or em were hatcht that very day 5 and thefe ob» 
fcrvations 1 did not make at one certain feafon of the 
year, but found that they continued to hatch, as long as 
the days were moderately warm. 
And fo I reckon it is with that Animalculam likewife, 
whofe Trunk or lower parts compofe what we call Co* 
chincel s at Icaft it was my opinion, after I had fuffici- 
cntiy obferv'd fcveral Grains of Cocbineel given me by 
three different per fons 5 for when 1 oppos'd fome of the 
largeft grains of Cochineel againft the fmalleft, fo far as 
I was able to diftinguifh by my Glafles^ I found that 15 
of the fmall ones were hardly equal to one of the great 5 
and whenl viewed the Powder or Duft of theCochineelj 
which I took out of thfe bottom of a Box, I met with 
fome Trunks of thofe Flics fo vi?ry fmall, that I judgU 
100 of them unequal to one large Grain* 
Since there is not one man in a thoufand, that has any 
knowledge of Cochineel, nor of the fize of its Gramsj 
I have thought fit to caufe one of th^m to be dcfign'd 
by my Limner, (ee Fig. i. A 
I took another Grain of Cochineel, and placed it be- 
fore a Microfcope, and caused it to be drawn joft as it 
appeared to the Limner,as you may fee in Fig x. CDEFG. 
the extrci^m Parts being defcrib d by C, and by £F, a 
feeming Orifice, which is the Part where the String was 
broken off, and by which both parts of the Body were 
joynd together. 
The Concave Bows or Circles that appear in the Co* 
cbineel grain DEFG, are not natural but adventitious to 
the faid Grain, and proceeds only from the drying or 
(hrinking up of the great number of Eggs that lye wuhin 
the Animalculum 5 for if the faid Grain were well foakt 
and plumpt up with Water, thofe concave parts would 
become 
