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fometimes to reach to the middle of its body, its lips are 
adorned with hairs in motion, which feem to have a. 
communication with a little part that probably may be 
the heart, and lungs furrounding it; its hinder part is 
alfo furnifhed with hairs that form a kind of tail; a 
little above the anus is a brown fpot, fuppofed to be the 
excrement; the reft of their body is generally ftored with 
little regular corpufcles. 
This fort of animalcule is alfo found in infufions of 
wheaten ftraw, in that of barley mixt with fome of the 
ears ; in Turkey corn, Indian cane, in the wood and 
bark of acaias, or in that of whole pepper, &c. All thefe 
different forts of water-fpiders, have hairs round their 
body, inclining a little from their head towards their tail, 
and may be feen with a lens of one twelfth part of an 
inch fGcus. 
Fig. 308. is called great mouth, becaufe its mouth 
takes up about half the length of its body ; its upper lip 
is much longer than the lower, and are each adorned 
with little hairs; its infide is filled with darkifn fpots, 
and hinder part terminated with a fingular tail. 
ig- 3 °F> ^ ^ ^0 F named a funnel, and is here re- 
prefented under three different forms, in the middle one 
the mouth is open and round, the infide of its lips are 
adorned with little hairs, which have a quick motion; 
the infide of its body ftrewed with many little irregular 
fpots, and its long tail generally drags after it little pieces 
of fkin faften’d to its extremity. The fecond is feen at 
A with its mouth fhut; and the third at C, whofe body 
is rounder, and its tail at certain times twifted the 
form of a cork-fcrew. 
^ ! g’ 3 10 - hath a head like clover grafs, and a forked 
tail; its mouth very fmall and round. 
