174 Qf Infers* Part I. 
downward, above * an inch long by the bow. Thefe 
r*)Pifo,Hift. Teeth being fet in Gold, are ufed (a) by fome for Tooth- 
N - L 5- Pickers. Being vexed, they ftrike with a Sting fo very 
ibid, fmall, as it is hardly vifible. (b) They will live feveral 
Months without eating any thing. 
CO Barkci ■ The Nhanduguacu, a great Spider in Bra file (c) fo called, 
p 1 2I M ' iS probably of the fame Species. 
The TOOTH of the NHANDUGUACU or Bahama- 
Spider. 
The WEB of a Bermuda-Spider. It is fo ftrong, as to 
(d) Phiiof. fnare a Bird as big as a Thrujh. (d) Tis here wound upon 
rranf ' N '* 0 ' a Paper like Raw-Silk. 
00 Hift. An. Spiders, faith Ariftotle, (e) caft their Threads, not from 
hb. p. c. 39. within,as an Excrements Democritus would have it$but from 
without, as the Hiftrix doth his Quills. Of the fpining of 
Spiders, and the reft of their Hiftory, fee the curious Ob- 
(f ) Lib. de fervations of Mr. Lyfter. (/ ) 
Araneis. CLAW of a SCORPION. Tis long and (lender, 
and belongs to the firft Species defcribed by Mbiifet. 
A thick and fhort CLAW of a Scorpion, belonging to 
the third Species in Mbiifet. 
The TAIL of another, with the Sting at the end, 
which is a little crooked, and as fharp as that of a Bee. 
The other parts of all three are broken off and loft. 
In the Mufeum Cofpian : is the Figure of a Very large 
Scorpion, three times as big as I find any where, yet faid by 
Lorenzo Legati, to be drawn after the life. 
This Infecl aboundcth in Br a file. Thofe that are ftung 
with them, fuffer extraordinary pains for about twenty four 
( g ) Job. de hours, but feldom die upon it. (g) 
6' out of Of Scorpions are prepared, Oleum Compos. Magnum, i. e. 
Lerius. Matthioli, Sdnguineum (h) Magni Vucis? i& 01. S corp. pur- 
(b) Schrod. / • \ 
Pharm. g atum - W 
ii) Poterfus. The GRFAT GALLY-WORME. Scolopendra. De- 
fcribed both by Moufet and Aldrovandus : but yet imper- 
fectly. Neither is this here entire. Yet thus much remains 
Obfervable of the Feet 3 That each of them is armed, in 
the room of Claws, with three, four, or five Needles, of 
different thicknefs and length 3 fome of them above * of 
an inch long 3 of a black fhining colour like the Sting 
of a Bee , and equally fharp 3 in refpect to which the 
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