Of Flies, 69 
able ;* their fize is lefs than that of a loufe p : they may 
be taken up with the point of a pin dipped in fpittle, 
and by that means placed, or as it were glewed to a 
very fmall bit of card, which may be applied to the 
microfcope in the nippers. And flronger infers may 
be fluck to a larger piece of card with a touch of 
turpentine, and applied to the magnifier in the nippers 
as before. 
On the froth, which hangs on the leaves of lavender, 
horfe-mint, rofemary, &c. q (by fome called cuckow- 
fpit) is always found a little infedl of a golden colour ; 
it hath fix legs, with two black claws at the end of each, 
which it can open and fhut at pleafure 3 its eyes are 
pearled and of a dufky red, a long reddifh probofcis is 
fituated between its fore legs 3 its tail had feveral annular 
divifions that ended in .a flump, which it could at pleafure 
thrufl out or draw back3 it firfl creeps, then leaps, and 
at lafl flies. 
The cow-lady, lad^-bird, or fpotted fcarabee, is a very 
nimble animal 3 cut off its head, and ere£l it perpendi¬ 
cularly upon the neck (which may be faflened to a bit 
of foft wax firfl fluck upon the point, or by a drop of 
gum-water upon a piece of card, which may be held in 
the nippers, and fb applied to the microfcope) and you 
will fee two fmall black eyes fet upon three white plates 
like polifhed ivory, two fmall ones on one fide, and a 
large one on the other5 pull off both the cruflaceous 
and filmy wings, which are a fence to a thin tender black 
fkin, under which the pulfation of the heart r may be 
feen to beat vigoroufly for twelve or fourteen hours, 
after the head and neck are feparated. 
F 3 There 
? Power’s p. 31. s Ibid, p, 28. r Ibid. p. 30. 
