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become ^ convex, and be alfo more obvious to fight as 
well as the Stem of that String we juft now mention'd. 
But if you take one of the largeft Grains, and which is 
fomewhat flat, that part of the Trunk will oot flirink 
inwards, the reafon v;hereof I iraagin to be, That the 
Animalculum, before it was lull'd, had difcharg'd moft 
of its Eggs. 
1 caufed forae of thefe Cochineel grains to be fteept 
in Rain Water about 24 hourSj and then opend em in 
the prefence of the Limner, the reafon of which w^, 
that when the Eggs and the young ones in em were 
dry, they were fo fhHverd; as I took em out, that it 
was impofEble tor htoi to drfcover or reprefent their 
Figwe. 
Fig. 3. H I K. (hews you an Egg with its Shell or Mem- 
brane, as it was taken out oi a grain of CocbineeJ, 
in which Egg one might fee the young one within, and 
the Shell furrounding it. • :iuo 
This Egg Was drawn by the fame NilciWcope, as Fig. 
2. and when we lookt upon it fo long till the Egg be- 
came dry, the Shell br^ Membrane would become fo 
fhriverd, that we could no longer have a diftinft view 
of it. ; r 
Fig. 4. LMN. reprefents an unbofn Cochineel Ani- 
malculum, which I had feparated [from the Epg-fhell 
with a great deal of pains 5 tlie Animalculum lay with 
its Back to my fight, and in fuch a pofture as to fhpw 
three of its Legs. 
By Fig 5. OPCLR?. is(hown a fmall Particle of the 
Veffels belonging to an Ovarium or^Egg^Neft, where 
one may fee divers broken Filaments or Strings, to which 
Strings the Eggs were fafined, except the great ^VefTel 
defcribed by R. and through v^^hich I may iraagin, feve- 
ral other VefTels received their matter for the Nourifti? 
luent and Increafe of their Eggs* 
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