6. P. fl. 
tab. j6. 
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abrade the tender particles of the leaves, foe that no- 
thing was remaining, betides a certain dried tkin. 
They appear Yellow in the beginning, afterwards 
they become black. 
They compofed therafelves for change^ the yth. of 
and the i^th. day of the fame moneth appeared 
the Aniraalls depifted.^ 
Thefe Animats have a certain glew, near the Tail % 
by which they do adhere to all things fo Tenacioufly, 
that tliey can fcarce be thaked of. 
Number, up. 
For GryUotalps or Field , I know them by 
many experiments to be very rebuft, and of a firm life. 
I cut offthe head of one of them 5 which after 2 dayes 
was wholy eaten by another Field cricket : onely 2 little 
Nerves being left, yet the head lived 12 hours after. 
I hanged another Field Cricket by a firing in the heat 
of the Sun, (b that it became wholy Black ; yet it died 
not, before the jth. day. 
They are very ingenious in building their nefl : for 
that end, they do deft a certain G/ebe of earth firm 
and Tenacious t and therein they make themfelves a hole 
to go in and out at 5 within they make a great cavitie, 
in the which they depofe more then too. Sometime 
150. eggs. 
This being done ? the hole of the ingrefTe they accura- 
tely fhut up, and they ftrengrhen the Glebe as misch, as 
may be j for that being bre ken, all the eggs perifh, and 
are confumed of certain Flack.Fl)es y which ly hid under 
ground 5 therefore they are very anxious and fblicitous 
of conferving , and making firm this therefore 
they perpare for themfelves a ceriaio fubteraneous Du- 
