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XLIV. An Account of the InfeSl called the Vegetable Fly : by William Watfon F. R. S. To the Royal Society. Gentlemen, Read Nov. 24, / ■ ^HE beginning of laft month, I re- >7 6 3- ceived a letter from our learned and ingenious mem ber Dr. Huxham of Plymouth in which among other things he informed me, that he lately had, by permiflionof commiffioner Rogers, obtained a fight of what is called the vegetable fly, with the following defcription of it ; both which he had from Mr. New- man, an officer of general Duroure’s regiment, who came from the ifiand Dominica. As this delcription feemed to the dodtor exceedingly curious, he has fent it me, exa&ly tranfcribed from Mr. Newman’s ac- count, and is as follows. “ The vegetable fly is found in the ifland Dominica, “ and (excepting that it has no wings) refembles the “ drone both in fize and colour more than any other tc Englilh infedt. In the month of May it buries itfelf “ in