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of their bodies^ and are enclosed in a kind of cyst 
or capsule. It may be added that many insects 
are infested with still more extraordinary inmates, 
viz. Gordii or Filariae of several inches in length. 
It would be unpardonable to dismiss the genus 
Apis without calling the attention of the reader 
to the ingenious Mr, Kirby’s elaborate publica- 
tion entitled Monographia Apiim Angl'ice, a work 
in which the British species of this extensive genus 
are defined with an accuracy surpassing the usual 
tenor of entomological description./^ 
