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The Hiflory of ANIMALS, 
P O D A R I A, 
Or InfeEts which have no wings , hut have limbs. 
Divifon the Second. 
Thofe which have Jhorter bodies , and lefs numerous legs 3 or fewer than 
fix pairs . 
P U L E X. 
T H E body of the Pulex is fliort, of a roundifh figure, and compreffed 5 the 
legs are three pairs, and are formed for leaping : the eyes are two, and fimple * 
the mouth is bent downward. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Pulex. %\ y t 
The body is roundifli and obtufe at the end, the head fmall, and the eyes large: 
the antennas are fhort, and are compofed of four joints; the legs are long, robuft, and 
thick toward the infertion, flender and fomewhat hairy toward the extremities: the 
colour is a deep purple, approaching to black. Hook has given an excellent micro- 
fcopic figure of it, which has been copied by mod of that kind of writers fince. 
It is not peculiar to man, or to quadrupeds3 it is very frequent in fwallows nefls' 
and on the bodies of fome other young birds. Authors call it, Pulex vulgaris, and 
Pulex ater. 
PODURA. 
T H E body is fliort and roundifli; the tail is crooked, forked, and of ufe in the 
leaping motion of the creature : the legs are three pairs, and ferve only for 
Walking : the eyes are two, but each of them is compofed of eight others. 
This genus comprehends the Pucerons of Reaumur, and other of the French writers* 
Podura viridis corpore fubovato. ^Zl)t CO 1 Hilt OR 
The green Podura , with an oval body. fStltCtOlL 
This is about the bignefs of a common flea ; it’s colour is ufually a bright green, 
fometimes a darker, or bluifli green ; the body approaches to an oval figure, and is 
larged and mod convex in the hinder part: the thorax is very fmall 3 the head is ob¬ 
tufe and green : the eyes are very confpicuous; they are bright, and of a deep black; 
they dand prominent in the front of the head, and there runs alfo near them a black 
line on each fide. The legs are very dender, and of a whitifh green, and are all of 
the fame length : the antennas are crooked. 
It is frequent on the dalks of the common atriplex, and many other plants and 
flirubs, covering the whole branches in innumerable multitudes. Authors have called 
it, from it’s refemblance to the common flea, Pulex viridis plantarum 3 the French, 
Puceron. 
Podura antennis longioribus . 
The Podura , with long antenna. 
This grows to the fize of a fmall grain of wheat: it’s body is fliort and roundifli; 
it’s fkin gloify and black j it’s anus forms a remarkable protuberance in the hinder 
part: the head is fmall, the eyes arevery minute, and the antenns are equal to the 
body in length, and are black, but tipped with white at the end. 
It is common in our woods on the larger fungi. Linnaeus calls it, Podura atra ab- 
domine fubglobofo, antennis longitudine corporis apice albis. 
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Podura 
