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fo tender-fk'raed , that -they are cruftied with the leaft 
touch, and the humour fqueezed out of them is green. 
Thefe are bred from a certain humour, which the 
Ants lay upon the faid leaves, and with the fiin, hatches 
into little creatures ; they (poile the boughs they a re 
bred on, for they corrupt the wood, knitting upon 
it a net t under which lying-hid they grow up ; and 
in the mean time do fuck up all the motfturej fothat 
the boughs being deprived of that humour which is 
owing to them, do become lean, tender, and black 
barked 5 not like the reft of the wood. 
When they are new hatched, the Ants are f.en to 
creep amongft them, and as it were to.cleanle them, 
i The Worm depifted Table 1 eats thefe little 
creatures, as foon, as they are grown up : yea it fills 
it felf with thefe, that it can hardly ftir 5 and being 
fo filled, itrefts quiet in the feme place it laid it felf 
down in, to the next morning, and then, when the yefe 
ter-dayes meat is digefted, it begins to devour the re- 
maining creatures, or feeks a new bough, better fur- 
niflied, and on which more of thefe fmall creatures fit, 
and of them it fills its hungry belly, as before. 
This Worm gave it felf to change the toth ef 
^«»e, in that form and Pofture as is depifted, and it re- 
mained in that ftate 20 dayes, fo that the of 
a Fly came forth, which ^ wonderfull!) moftfuddenly 
came to its perfeft bigneffe j for within a quarter of an 
hour, it became as big again, as it was, when it was 
hatched, and as big again ^s the egg from which it 
broke out. 
I knew not what to give it, that it Wou’d taft, and 
fo it dyed the of 
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