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Seetki^ and otter dead infiSs i I therefore put it up udth 
a dead Beetle^ into aa Ivory Box, having learnt by ex- 
perience, that theft kind of will perforate Wood- 
en boxes 5 thisiSeet/e itfedd on eating out all its bowels, 
and creeping into the fhell of the Beetle^ wherein it 
wou’d conveniently turn it ftlf about everyway: This 
Worme is flow footed : its an angry creature, and boldj 
keeping its ftation, unlefle y ou vex it overmuch : It hath 
a painted Taile, which is (hining, with which it defends 
it felf, that it cannot give back, and then it contrafts its 
body, and with its toothed Forcipet, it ftrongly defends 
it ftlf, againft any violence done to it. 
This Worm lay in the body of the Beetle^ it had fed 
on, from the i^th- o^Augufit untill the of the 
Year following j then out came a winged beauti- 
full, and elegant. The wings were very remarkable, but 
fb tender, that I could ftarce draw them with a Pencil!, 
and Alining bright as Mother oiFearl. Its two eyes glifterd 
like Gold'-) its body was of a Sea-green colour. 
He flew with his head erefted, and the reft of his 
body hanging downwards, with his wings fpread, but 
not agitated 5 which perhaps he cou’d ftarce do, as I 
guefs from the bignefs of them, but was carried by the 
Wings through the Aire, he lived but two Days fafting, 
for I knew not what to feed it with. 
