by Monfieur Cochin; the Papilio's of Day, and thofe of Night, engraven by Madam Cochin; the large Wafp's Neft, taken from Nature by the fame Hand; to which we may add, the Gnats and other Infects; together with the principal Species of Fish and amphibious Animals, &c. Thofe who are defirous of inferting them in the former Editions of this Work, may purchase them of the Bookfellers at a very moderate Expence, which thefe Plates have unavoidably occafioned,

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1. The Eyes.

2. The Mouth and Spinners. C. One of the hinder Feet. D. One of the Fore Feet. E. The Hooks of the Claws reprefented larger. F. The Cone of Silk. G. The fame laid open. H. The Bean. I The Spoils of the Worm. K. The Butterfly coming out of its Chryfalis.

Page 57.

A. The Garden Spider. 1. The Legs. 2. The Arms. 3. The Eyes and Claws, or Pincers. B. The Eyes and Claws at large. C. A larger Delineation of the Eyes and Claws, one of which Claws is at reft, and bent among feveral Points, the other extended. c. The little Aperture through which the Spider ejects her Poifon into the Wound. D. The Extremity of the Leg with its Hairs, its two hooked Clays, in the Form of Saws, its two Sponges, and a Spur projecting out on one Side. E. The wandering Spider with her two Tufts of Feathers. F. The Anus and Dugs. G. The Dugs of different Sorts of Spiders. H. Several Threads which altogether form but one. 1. The Repofitories of the Matter out of which

the 'I hread is formed.

Page 72.

A. The Mule Wafp. B. The Male. C. The Female. D. The Head of the Wafp. E. The Antenna,,or Horns. F. The Saws at reit. G. The Saws unfolded for Work.

H. The

H. The Trunk open. I. The Chryfalis. K. The young Wafp almost formed.

Page 86.

A. The Queen Bee. B. The Drone. C. The common Bee. D. The Fore Part of the Head. dd. The Jaws, and the Socket on the Trunk. E. The Trunk for extracting Honey from Flowers. 1, 1. The two Branches that reft on the Trunk. 2. The two Branches that embrace and enfold the whole. 3. The Joint or Fold of the Trunk. F. The Paw filled with Wax. G. The Extremity of the Paw, with its Hairs, Hooks, and Sponges. H. The Sting. 4. The Sheath. 5. The Darts with their Fibres. 6. Drops of Poison flowing into the Wound. I. A Side View of the Cells at their Opening. K. The Cells reverfed. L. The Situation of the Egg at the Bottom of the Cell. M. The young Worm. N. The Worm changed into a Chryfalis. O. The Chryfalis on the Point of its Transformation into a Fly.

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Gnats and other Infects.

A. The Chryfalis produced by an Aquatick Worm. (a) The Tail lubricated with Oil, and refting on the Surface of the Water, while the Chryfalis rears its Head into the Air, or keeps it fufpended in the Water. B. The Gnat, fprung from that Chryfalis, which before enclosed it. (1) The Head and fmall Plumage. (2) The Antennæ, or Horns. 3. The Trunk that unfheaths the two Darts. A. The Sheath from whence the Darts are launched. through a lateral Overture. 4, 5, 6, 7. Different Forms of Darts, which are either all fhot out at the fame time, or separately. The whole appears in the Magnitude exhibited in a Microfcope. C. The Dragon-fly magnified. D. The two Eyes of the Infect. E. A Mite as it appears in a Microscope. F. A Pifmire magnified. G. The Mole Cricket, in its natural Dimenfions, and from under whofe fcaly Coat two little Wings are expanded. This kind of Tail, which extends to the Extremity, are two other Wings folded up. H. A Flea as it ap pears in a Microscope. (a) The three Points which rife

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out of the Head, and of which that in the Middle ferves as a Trunk for the Suction of Blood. (b) The long Paws, by whofe elaftic Spring the Creature darts along. (c) The Egg of a Flea at large. (d) The fame Egg, bruised by the Worm that fprings from it. (e) The Worm which contains the Flea. (f) The Chryfalis divested of its Vermicular Skin, and and which performs the Function of a Sheath, in which the Paws of the enfolded Flea are vifible. This Formation, which is fo analagous to many others, and fo regular in the minutest Animals, is a Demonftration that Chance has no Agency in Nature ; but that every Part of her Work is measured out and completed by a wife Defign.

Page 131.

A. The Lion-Pifmire larger than the Life. B. The Lion-Pifmire hid in the Sand at the Bottom of his Ditch, and whirling the Sand on an Ant, to prevent its regaining the Side of the Ditch. C. The Ball of Sand in which the Lion Pifmire is changed into a Chryfalis. D. The Chryfalis at large. E. The Nymph that proceeds from it. F. An Acquatic Animal out of which springs another kind of Nymph.

Page 142.

A. A Snail. B. The little Shell as it comes out of the Egg. C. The Collar and mufculous Skin, by the Aid of which the Snail marches forwards. D. His four Telefcopes. E. Several Fractures made in divers Snails, and which have been repaired by their Sweat. F. Several Shell-Fish, whofe Channels, Protuberances, and Spots, correspond to the Chanels, Tumours, and different Perforations of the Body, which forms them by fucceffive Advances of Growth.

Page 252.

A. A Bean laid open. 1. The two Lobes containing

the firft Nourishment of the Bud. 2 The little Plant or Bud. 3. The little Root. 4. The Fibres of the two branched Tubes that are tending to unite together at the little Root. B. An Acorn in its Cup. C. The Root of a little Oak rifing firft upwards, and then bending to the Earth. D. The little Root of a Bud, at first forced to

afcend

afcend by meeting with some hard Body, and then turning downwards to the Earth; as it is feen in E. F. The Bud of a Gourd as it appears through a Microscope on the Top of the Kernel. 5. The feminal Leaves clapped together, and containing the little Plant. 6. The little Root. 7. The feminal Leaves and little Root beginning to grow in the Seed. 8. The feminal Leaves fprouting out of the Earth. 9. The Root fortified and extending its Fibres in the Earth. 10. The little Plant beginning to fhoot out its proper Leaves from between the two feminal Leaves, one of which is bent down in 11. G. The Kernel of an Orange which contained two Buds, and has fhot forth two Stems. 12. The feminal Leaves. 13. The Lobes of the Kernel which are become useless, and are rotten in the Earth.

Page 254.

A. The Fibres of the Wood. B. The Meshes through which the Rounds of the Utriculi, or little Bags, país. C. The Rounds of little Bags placed horizontally. D. The Air Vents, always empty, of an equal Bignefs, and compofed of spiral Fibres. É. Tranfverfe Fibres, which make the Wood hard to split, and terminate in the Knots, the Buds, and the Pedicles of the Leaves and Fruits. F. The Trunk of a young Tree of two Years Growth cut horizontally. 1. The Epidermis. 2. The grofs Bark. 3. The fine Bark. 4. The fappy Part, or the Wood of the laft Year. 5. The Wood of the first. 6. The Utriculi of the Pith. 7. The Utriculi that go from the Bark to the Pith. G. Part of the Infide of a Vine-branch cut horizontally, and fhewing the Orifices of the Veffels from one Side of the Bark to the Pith. 8. The Place of the Bark, which is taken away. 9. The three Rows of Utriculi, two of which go to the Pith. The third ends in the Thickness of the Fibres. 10. The Utriculi of the Pith, larger than the horizontal ones. 11. The Orifices of the Veffels cut, which are the Fibres, the proper Veffels, and the Air Vents; the largest Openings are thofe of the Air Vents.

Page 273.

I. A Tree planted on a Level. 2. A right Angle. 3. A Tree planted on a Declivity. 4. An acute Angle, or narrower than a right one. 5. An obtufe Angle, or