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As foon as the female infedt is delivered of its 
numerous progeny, it becomes a meer hulk and dies; 
fo that great care is taken in Mexico, where it is 
principally collected, to kill the old ones while big 
with young, to prevent the young ones efcaping 
into life, and depriving them of that beautiful fear- 
let die fo much efteemed by all the world. 
I am, 
Park-Street, Weftminfter, Your moft obedient fervant, 
December 23, 1762. 
John Ellis,. 
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