332 DIPTERA. 
eat the soft flesh, and leave untouched 
all the firmer substance, of which the 
tendinous parts are formed; even the finest 
membranes they strip of every particle of 
flesh and fat, and shew them in the high- 
est preservation. This gentleman em- 
ployed the larger species for the coarser 
parts, and the worms of some very small 
flies for eating between the delicate and 
close-laid fibres. 
