Of Lies. 93 
Upon an oblong flip of glafs, a loufe may be 
eafily diffedled in a fmall drop of water and applied to 
the microfcope ; thus five or fix eggs ready to be laid may 
be found in the ovary of a female, with many others of a 
lefs fize. In the male the penis is remarkable, and alfo 
the tefles, whereof it has a double pair* The females 
appear very white if falling, and even when fed are lefs 
red than the males. 
The vermin adhering to and feeding on the bodies of 
different animals, are commonly called lice. 
Infects are infedted with vermin that feed a on and 
torment them ; feveral beetles have lice on them. 
The earwig is troubled with minute infects, which 
flick like lice on the feveral parts of the body, efpecially 
under the fetting on of its head. They are white like 
mites, but finaller$ are round backed, flat bellied, long 
legged, efpecially the two fore moll; the fame has not 
been obferved on any other animal. 
Snails of all kinds have infedls feeding on them. Small 
red lice are frequently to be feen about the legs of 
fpiders. 
"White lice are commonly found on humble-bees, on 
ants, on fifhes, &c. and probably very few creatures are 
free from them. 
The polipe alfo is not exempt from vermin of this 
fort. 
There is another fort of loufe found about unclean 
people, called a crab-loufe. 
Seignior Redi at the end of his treatife De Generations 
Infedlo, hath obliged us with microfcopic drawings of 
feveral forts of lice, that feed upon the bodies of different 
animals, to which I refer the reader. 
* Phil. Tvanf. No. 2&S. 
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