So Of the white feathered winged Mot ha 
. Of the white feathered winged moth. 
I T appears to the naked eye to be a fmall milk-white 
fly with four wings, the two foremoft fomewhat longer 
than the hindermoft, and thefe about half an inch in 
length; each of thefe wings confifts of two feathers, as 
reprefented in fig. 839. very curioufly tufted or haired on 
each fide, with exceeding white but minute hairs; its 
whole body, legs, horns, and Aalks of the wings were 
covered-over with various kinds of white feathers, which 
rub off between the fingers when touched. Underneath 
thefe feathers this curious infedt was covered all over 
with a crufled fhell. It had alfo different feathers, that 
covered feveral parts of its body; the tufts or hairs of its 
wings, when viewed in the microfcope, appear as repre¬ 
fented in the fig. by D. The feathers which covered a 
part of its body, like A, conflfiing of a fialk and a 
feeming tuftednefs on each fide; others which covered 
fome parts of its body, and the ftalk of its wings much 
like fig. B, thofe which covered its horns and the fmaller 
parts of its legs, in the fhape of fig. C. Mr. Hook ob« 
ferved, that the fmooth winged infedfs have the firrongefl 
mufcies ; and even this very infedl had a very fmall body, 
if compared to the length and number of his wings; 
which therefore as he moved them very flowly, con- 
fequently moved them as weakly; which laft property is 
in fome meafure obfervable in the larger kind of flying 
creatures, as birds, Sc c. So that by the afiiftance of the 
microfcope we find, that the wifdom and providence of 
the all-wife Creator, is no lefs fhewn in thofe defpicable 
creatures, flies, moths, &c, than in the larger parts 
of the creation. 
Thefe 
