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Ants haveall one Soul, are ubiquitaries, Cupboards are fet in Hollows 
of Water to prevent their coming to them, and yet they will make 
Bridges of one another to come at them, and goup to aCeiling to go down, 
to hinder this the Inhabitants tar the Strings by which any thing hangs. 
They inform one another of Sugar, ec. ona Table, Ligon. They eat 
their Hangings there, zd. 
Pyrard de la Val of the Maldives, p. 87. tells us, that there the Ants with 
Rats, ce. deftroy their Provifions and Merchandize fo as to be 
forc’dto make Magazines in the Sea two or three hundred Paces from 
Shore on Piles to hinder their Deftruction, and that they are alfo troubled 
with them fo asto be forc’d to ufe cover’d Plates. 
Loubere {ays they are forc’d to japan the Covers of their Books in Siam 
to preferve them from the white Ants. p. 45. 
Great Heaps as Haycocks are made by Ants. Mori/ot. Nott. in Roulox 
Baro. 
The Ants are call’d Reyes do Brafil, becaufe of their being every where 
and deftroying every thing. TheNegroes feed on the Bellies of them. Marcg. 
About Seva near Sofala is a Worm calld Ivharara, feeding on the Ants. 
Sanitos ap. Purch. p.1545- 
VII. Scarabais affine Formica fimile Infettum. Tab. 237. Fig. 20, 
This was near an Inch long, not half fo broad, all over black. The 
Byes were grey, the Head and Thorax fmooth, the Vagize of the Wings 
channel’d or ftriated. The Antenne were globular, half an Inch long. 
The Legs fix, two pair feeming to iffue from the Abdomen. 
I had it in famazca, and apprehend it may be the fame with N?- IX. 
or Scarabeis affine Formica fimile Infectum, defcrib’d in this Volume, p- 206. 
VIII. Bombylius totus e viridi coeruleus. Tab. 240. Fig.1. Aa Abeilles, 
bleves. Rochef. p.161? Eyreouue, Abbeville, p. 255: 
The great green Humble-Bee. 
This was an Inch long from the Head to the End of the Tail, the Head 
was join’d bya {mall Thread or Fé/fala to the Thorax and that to the 
Abdomen, the Head was large, on each fide of which were two large 
oval Eyes, between which arofe two Aztenne a quarter of an Inch long, 
and crooked, the Thorax was about one third of an Inch long, and gave 
original to fmall membranaceous Wings which took their Beginning 
from two fmall round Knobs, the Feet proceeded from hence likewife 
they were fix, the two foremoft were fhorteft, and had two Joints, the 
firft whereof was of a dark greenifh blue Colour, as was the Head and 
Thorax ; the two middlemoft Legs were in every thing like the others, 
only longer, thefe two Pairs, had their fecond Joints cover’d with a black 
Hair, the third Pair of Legs were longeft and very thick cover’d with a 
green long Hair, and all the Legs had Claws to them, ftanding forked 
and crooked. ‘The Abdomen was half an Inch long and one quarter broad, 
it was green and had five Sections or broad Scales coming one over another. 
It was rough about the Azus and fhew’d a long Sting, and had a fmall 
Probofcis. 
It goes from Flower to Flower, and fucks fomething from them, mak- 
ing fuch Noife as our Englifh Bees only ftronger. 
They build in Crannies of Rocks and hollow Trees, make black Wax, 
and have no Stings, Rochef. 
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