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.MittZv^^^ I went into a Garden, where I faw little 
Lice upv the Leaves of a Hazel-nut-Tree, Itookfome 
of them and brought them home with me, and view- 
ing them I obferved that they agreed pretty much in 
fhape with the Green ones, with this difference, thaC 
they were lefs by half 5 for after that fome of them 
were changed into Flying Creatures, their Bodies were 
not bigger than a fingle coprfe Sand, and covered with 
abundance of Hair, and at the ends of thofe Hairs, 
fmall clear Drops of Moifture, but when they hadfhed 
their laft Skin, and were turn d into Flies, I could per- 
ceive no Hair on their Bodies. 
I opened alfo feveral of thefe Lice, and took the 
young ones out of their Bellies. 
I tormerly imagined that all thofe Creatures whofe 
Tails or hinder part of riieir Bodies were crooked or 
bending (Krings of Kerfs) as are moft Flying Crea- 
tures, and alfo the Body of the Scorpion, were Worms 
or Reptiles before their change, but I have found by 
my obfervations of thefe and fuchlike Creatures, that I 
wa^ miftaken ^ for the Bodies of thefe Creatures are al- 
fo :<:rooked i^gekerfi') and yet they come without any 
change from their Mothers Bellies. 
. Thefe threie before- mention d^;/re//^ , after they had 
been ftiut up about eight days in the Tube, I faw that 
from one ot them a Flying Creature was produced, 
which was of a grey colour, and the undermoft of the 
Wings and the Body was yellowifh, otherwife, it was 
).uft hke the Creature we cail a Moth,^ only larger than 
the White Moth,that eatsCloath,when they are Worms 
The flipt skin of the before-m.ention*d Flying Crea-* 
ture, which the aurelia had parted with , was in my 
Judgment the fourth part longer than it had been whilft' 
the Fly was (hut up in it. 
The next day I had the luck, that the little- Crea- 
ture in the fecond aurelia^ as I was obferving it, began 
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