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to the filmy Wing of a Bat then but newly 
dead, and is undoubtedly the Vermin of that 
Creature : many others were probably con¬ 
cealed under its fhort thick Hair, but being 
intent on examining this with the Micro- 
fcope, and making Drawings of it, I omitted 
fearching after more. 
Its Body is nearly circular, and about the 
30th Part of an Inch in Diameter. It is fur- 
nifhed with eight Legs, each having fix 
joints : the laft joint terminates in a tranf- 
parent Tuft or Ball, like thofe at the Feet of 
fome Flies, but much larger and morefpread- 
ing in Proportion to its Size, whereby it is 
enabled to fatten itfelf ttrongly to whatever 
it ttands upon. Two fmall Antennae or 
Feelers are placed at the anterior, and a fmall 
Frocefs or Tail at the pofterior Part of this 
Animal. A perittaltic Motion, or rather a 
Contraction and Dilatation, are alternately 
carried on through the Intettines, which ap¬ 
pear more opake than the Parts about them, 
and fomewhat in the Shape of the Letter 
X 
This Animal is fhewn in its natural walk¬ 
ing Potture, with its Back uppermott, at E, 
and again at F with its Back downwards, and 
its Belly next the Eye. It lived more than 
twenty-four Hours between two Talcs, and 
died nearly in the Potture fhewn at E, F, as 
jt ttill continues in the Slider now before me, 
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