Note s — BOOK IV. (continued 2)

Among many Examples, the Legs and Feet of the Mole-Cricket, (Gryllotalpa,) are very remarkable. The Fore-Legs are very brawny and strong; and the Feet armed each with four flat strong Claws, together with a small Lamina, with two larger Claws, and a third with two little Claws: Which Lamina is joynted to the Bottom of the Foot, to be extended, to make the Foot wider, or withdrawn within the Foot. These Feet are placed to scratch somewhat sideways as well as downward, after the Manner of Moles Feet; and they are very like them also in Figure.

Somewhat of this Nature, Swammerdam observes of the Worms of the Ephemeron. To this Purpose, [to dig their Cells,] the wise Creator hath furnish’d them, (saith he,) with fit Members. For, besides that their two Fore-Legs are formed somewhat like those of the ordinary Moles, or Gryllotalpa; he hath also furnish’d them with two toothy Cheeks, somewhat like the Sheers of Lobsters, which serve them more readily to bore the Clay. Swammerdam’s Ephem. Vit. Publish’d by Dr. Tyson, Chap. 3.