9 8 Of Mites. 
cheefe for them to feed upon, had coupled j and foo 
after laid eggs of an oblong figure, and then died : from 
thefe eggs came young worms, which alfo fed on the 
cheefe, and when he judged them to be at their full 
growth, and the weather began to be cold, he took fix 
of the biggeft, and carried them about him; and a few 
days after he obferved that four of them were changed 
into aurelias, that two worms were dead, and two flies 
fkipping about the glafs ; he repeated the fame thing in 
January, and with the like fuccefs ; when he kept them 
in the cold, little or no fign of life or motion appeared; 
but as foon as he put them into his pocket, they were as 
brifk as in fummer. Upon opening an aurelia that had 
never produced a fly, a dead one was found within it, 
which had been making its efforts to get out, but was 
not ftrong enough to effect it. 
Thefe vermin creep into the cabinets of the curious, 
and deftroy their choice collections of infers: but to 
prevent this, keep in your drawers, &c. a continual fupply 
of camphire, whofe hot and dry effluvia will penetrate, 
fhrivel up, and deftroy the tender bodies of thefe little 
mifchievous plunderers. 
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