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foot in length. ? Tis commonly believed, but erronioufly, 
that this fort of Infett is nothing but a Horfe-Hair animated. 
By fome, that they are bred out of Locufts. See Aldrovandus 
hereof. But efpecially the Obfervations of Mr. Lyfter in 
0) n. 83. the Phil. Tranf. {a) who found them in the Belly of a kind 
of black and not uncommon Beetle 5 in fome one only, in 
others two or three together : of all which he hath feveral 
Remarques. 
Whether there are not a fort of Eggs fif ft laid by fome 
Animal upon the Beetles Breech, which being hatched eat 
their way into his Belly, may be a Queftion. And therefore, 
whether the like Wormes, may not fometimes be alfo found 
in the Bellies ot Locufts. 
A SE A-WORME NEST. Tis a piece of TUBULATED 
WOOD 3 part of the jheathing of a Ship. Brought in, 
by Wormius, improperly amongft Woods 3 as not being 
naturally Tubulous, but made fo by a fort of Sea-Wormes 5 
defcribed by Ro?ideletius, and out of him, by Aldrovandus 
and others. The Tubular Holes are numerous , of that 
width as to admit a Swans-Quill, very round, equally wide, 
and winding every way too and fro,fo as fome times to run 
one into an other. Mofl: curioufly lined, or as it were 
Wanfcoted with a white Teftaceous Cruft , of the fame 
fubft ance and thicknefs with thofe called Tubuli Marini. 
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