Of a Crab-like Infebi. 
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Of a crab-like infe£L 
T HIS infed is about the bignefs of a large mite, 
and of a very curious form, as delineated in fig„ 
167; it had ten legs, eight of which a a a a terminated 
in very fharp but double hooked daws, being thofe it 
walked upon, which were fhaped much like thofe of a 
crab : the two other claws A A, that were the foremoft 
of all the ten, feemed to branch out from its head, and 
were exa&ly formed like crabs, or lobfters claws, as are 
cxprelfed in the figure, whofe ends terminated in a pair 
of pincers, (with which I have often feen him ftroke 
thofe other claws E E) which grew out of his fnout; in 
walking the creature elevated the former above its head 
and body; its eyes were fituated about d d, its head was 
covered with a kind of fcaly n ihell at F, its thorax G G 
with two fmooth fcales, and its back with eight knobbed 
ones H H. Thefe infe&s are frequently to be met with 
amongft books and papers that come from China, when 
firft unpacked. 
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