[126] Imo ipsi Acari præ exiguitate indivisibiles, ex cuniculis prope aquæ lacum quos foderunt in cute, acu extracti et ungue impositi, caput rubrum, et pedes quibus gradiuntur ad solem produnt. p. vi.
[127] Teredo sive exiguus vermiculus, qui subter cutim erodit agitque cuniculos in pruriginosis manibus. Gouldman tells us these Acari were also called Hand-worms. Another English name is given in Mouffet, viz. Wheale-worms.
[128] Osservazioni intorno à pellicelli del corpo umano fatte dal Dottor Gio Cosimo Bonomo, &c. f. 1-3. Baker On Microsc. i. t. 13. f. 2.
[129] De Geer, vii. t. 5. f. 12. 14.
[130] Mém. Apterologique, 79.
[131] I am informed by my learned friend Alexander MacLeay, Esq. late Secretary to the Linnean Society, that, in the north of Scotland, the insect of the itch is well known, and easily discovered and extracted.
[132] This opinion Dr. Bateman thinks probably the true one. Cutan. Dis. 197.
[133] It may be mentioned here as a remarkable fact, that the Acarus Scabiei was discovered by M. Latreille upon a New Holland quadruped (Phascolomys fusca, Geoffr.) of the Marsupian tribe. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. 222.
[134] Amœn. Ac. ubi supr. 101.
[135] Traités de Chirurgie, &c. Leipsig. 1792.