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Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ts eggs in the reftum of horfes,and occafions great torment. See botts. 3. Ovis, the grey Jly.—Spotted witli bl;!ck ; frontpale-yellow ; legs brownilh; wings with ihnrt blackveins : length half an inch. Breeds in the the frontalfmus of fheep ; where the maggots, hatched from theeggs, lodge the whole winter, vcliicating the internalmembranes, and often bringing on death. 5. The iwfais.—Body black ; but the head thorax,and , covered with pale xfid hair, except thefirft fegment of the latter, which is covered with whitehair ; the wings immaculate. Breeds in the lauces ofhorfes, entering by their nofe. 5. Tbetarandi.—Thorax yellow ; with a black linebetween the -v. ings, which are immaculate : rfbdomentawny, laft fegment black. Isfeft the back of therein deer, fo as greatly to retard the breed. Therein-deer of Lapland are obliged every year to fly Alpine mountains, to efcaps die purfuit of thefe infects y/. / (^^/ f /rrr/u/) (^r/un/fZ/r, c/-Ifrr/r J//i(. (, \. ? Ji}Viiirf,i///j Plate CCCXLTS: ^^A^z^yi ^u/^c/Chfo/i U&ifi^U^.


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