Injedi with Net-like Arms . 
at them next Morning, he found they had 
formed a great many Threads in the Water,^ 
much refembling the Webs of Spiders: one 
of them being taken out of the Bottle with 
a Quill, it dropped therefrom, and fpun a 
Thread by which it hung, exadlly like the 
common Garden Spider. 
He then examined one of thefe Creatures 
by a Microfcope, and was much furprized at 
the Oddnefs of its Shape, and the very ex¬ 
traordinary Method whereby it takes its 
Prey.—The Body appeared as if it had been 
elegantly turned with a Lathe; being curi¬ 
ously rounded, and gradually fwelling and 
diminifhing in feveral Places; and at the Tail 
End were three Spines whereon to raife it- 
felf and ftand upright in the Water; but the 
moft amazing Circumftance of all was the 
Apparatus about its Head, where there was 
placed on each Side a Kind of Fan or Net- 
like Machine, ferving to provide its Food. 
Vid. N° viii. Plate XIV. 
Thefe Nets (if it may be allowed to call 
them fo) the little Animal frequently fpread 
out and drew in again : and when drawn iip 
they folded together with the utmoft Nicety 
and Exadtnefs, and could be brought fo clofe 
to the Body as not to be difcernable. At the 
Bottom of thefe Nets or Fans a Couple of 
Claws were fattened to the lower Part of the 
Head,* which Claws, every Time the Nets 
were drawn in, conducted to the Mouth of 
