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out being impregnated by the Concurrence of a 
Male. 
But the Summer following I began to be lenfible 
that my Opinion was erroneous, and about the End 
of it was quite convinced of my being in the wrong. 
This was Matter of Joy to me ; for as the Difcovery 
of a Truth hitherto unknown gives no fmall Plea- 
fure to a Mind that loves Truth, fo I am fure, no 
body will deny, that this Pleafure will be ftill great- 
er, if the Difcovery is attended with an Acknowledg- 
ment and Redrefs of an Error one has been under 
before. 
Having repeated my Obfervations with the greateft 
Exa£tnefs, and examined them in the ftri&eft Man- 
ner, at laft I found that the Metamorphofis, or Evolu- 
tion, through which our Coccus paffes, is as fol- 
lows : 
A. Of the Male. B. Of the Female. 
I. The Egg. I. The Egg. 
The Eggs are laid about the End of July , or the 
Beginning of Augujt. 
II A Worm with fix II. A Worm with fix 
Feet, no Wings. Feet, no Wings. 
The Worms come out of the Eggs about the Middle 
of Augiifi-, till the Beginning of September. 
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III. The 
