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TAB. LXVI. 
LARVA of an HEMEROBIUS ? 
February 6, 1806. — In an obscure corner of a new and 
beautiful Lichen discovered by my friend Charles Lyell,Esq. 
of Lindhurst, Hants, was found this insect. It was very cu- 
riously clothed with scraps of theLichen ; whetherto disguise 
itself, or to answer some other intention, we do not know. 
It was put under a watch-glass ; and as it was not apparently 
disconcerted, we could notice its motions easily. We first 
observed, that it used the hinder extremity of its abdomen 
like a seventh foot, which seemed to give it great power in 
tugging the moss or other things to pieces ; and, after 
having broken off a piece of a proper size, it would fix this 
seventh foot as it were, very firmly. (And indeed this 
hinder extremity seems formed to hold any thing, such as 
the enamel watch-plate, or the glass, as it were by an ope- 
ration like a sucker, or the proboscis or tentacula of some 
insects.) When thus fixed, having secured the fragment 
in its jaws, it dexterously turns its head and places the 
fragments on its back ; where it not only places it, but 
presses it, and appears much dissatisfied if it does not seem 
firmly fixed*. There are two protuberating parts on the 
shoulders, covered with long hairs, which it very dexte- 
rously avoids in this action, so that they are left free from 
any load. There are two similar ones on the hinder part, 
which it does not cover. It appears to have a series of 
* We were glad to observe so much of the actions of this animal, and it 
helps to elucidate that of the Cancer phalangium in Linnxan Transactions : 
and since we have been favoured with one of the same species from Scot- 
land, clothed with Sertularia loriculata ■ 
