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NATURAL HISTORY, 
THE FOURTH ORDEll. 
INSECTA NEUROPTERA. 
N'jiUROPTEROUS infers have four 
tranfparent, membraneous, and uncafed wings, 
which are veined like net-work. Their tail 
is unarmed, or ftinglefs ; but it is frequently 
furnilhed with appendices, like pincers, by 
which the males are diftinguiflied. 
LI B ELLUL h.—The DAMSEL. 
^.4.'' HIS genus of infedfs is well known to 
every body. The largeft Ipecies is produced 
from a water-worm, that has fix feet, which 
yet young, and very fmall, is transformed in- 
to a chrylallis, that has its dwelling in the 
water. People have thought they difeover- 
ed them to have gills like fiflies. It wears a 
malk-; as perfectly formed as thofe that are 
worn at a mafquerade ; and this malic, fa- 
ftened to the infedl’s neck, and which it moves 
at will, ferves it to hold its prey, while 
it devours it. The period of transforma- 
tion being come, the chryfallis makes to the 
water-fide, undertakes a voyage, in fearch 
of a convenient place ; fixes on a plant, or 
Iticks 
