Part I. Of Infers. 1 7 1 
between the Wing-fhells. The Legs are much broken, 
on the third Joynts, at leaft ot four of them, grow a pair 
of black fharp Prickles about the length and thickncls of 
the fling of a Bee. But that which is mod remarkable, is 
a Itrong and fharp Spike or Needle which (lands horizon- 
tally on his fore-Belly, and with its point towards the Tail 
His Wing-lhells are carry 'd down confiderably below his 
Belly : fo that being turned on his Back, he looks as if he 
lay in a Boat. 
By the (hape of the Wing-fhells, this bifecl feems, like 
the Noto?ietla ( whereof prefently ) to fwim on his Back. 
In which pofture, in cale of an approaching enemy, the 
aforefaid Needle is alfo ready for his defence. 
The Great Englijh WATERCLOCK. Hydrocantharus 
major Anglicus. Defcribed (a) and figurd (b) by Moufet. ( a j ub. t. 
It comes near, in bignefs, to the former 5 . as alfo in lhape 5 c ( ' b 23 ' At the 
but hath no Needle, neither are the Wing- (hells below the en d of the 
Belly. That part moft obfervable in him, is his Eye, which Second E ° o15 
is of a curious bright colour, almoft like a Butter fys. 
Another Wat er-Clocl^oi the fame Species. 
The fmall brown Water-Clock: 'Tis flat and narrow, 
and 1 of an inch long. 
The fmalleft Water-Clock, Scarce bigger than a Sheep- 
Tick, all over of a fhining black. 
Thefe Infects make ufe of their hinder Feet inflead of 
Oars. They are feldom or never feen in the day, excepting 
in the Water, which they leave in the night, and fly up and 
down, (c) CO Moufet,' 
The BOAT-FLY. NotoneEla. Defcribed by Moufet ^^n- 
but very briefly, (d) A Water-Infefi, in fhape like that ^ Lib. 2. 
' which lives in Cuccow Spittle, but fix times as big, ft: * of 01 3 s - 
an inch long. The upper Wings are opacous and thicker 
before $ at their hinder ends, where they lap over, tranfpa- 
rent and extream thin, like the Wing of a Fly. 
He foims faith Moufet, (e) contrary to other Creature s^on his 00 Lib. 2. 
Back, And the fhape of his Back feems to favour it, being c ' 38, 
very like the bottom of a Boat. Nor do his hinder Legs, 
which are thrice as long as the former, unaptly refemble a 
pair of Oars. 
The Great WINGED PUNEE. Cimex fyhefim alatus 
major. Moujet (/) hath given three good Figures of this (.0 Lib. i. 
Z 2 Kind, c ' 29 ' 
