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among tlie earth of their neit, 1 dil'covered leveral eggs lb mi- 

 iiute. that I coukl not. with my naked eye, dillern \\ hat they wei-e. 



One ot' theie egg-s I placed bet'ore the microtcope, and canted 

 a drawing to be made ot" it. which is Ihewn in Plate XlL.^o-. 

 1, ABC. And. to give an idea of tlie minutenefs of this egg, 1 

 mealiirod it by a rule divided into aliquot parts; and. I mutt fay, 

 that ninety of the diameiei-s. breadth or thicknefs of this egg, 

 w ould not amount to an inch in length. 



Another egg I placed Ix^fore the microfcope, in which the maggot 

 was io far "rown. that with its head, it advanceii bevond the ihell 

 of the egg. This is to be feen at /r^. 2, DEF; in which figure, 

 E F denotes w hat had been a part of the yolk of the egg, 

 but \\ as now tranfparent. and only tilled with air. 



The next dav alter 1 had turned up diis Ant's nelt, as before 

 mentioned, it rained verv hard, and the dav followino^, it was verv 

 fair weather; whereupon I v\ent to vifit the place, and found two 

 holes newlv made in the earth, and the Ants runninir in and 

 out. 1 took up a fpade full of the earth vN'here thefe holes were 

 made, and found ii\ it manv ei;c;s of the lame mimitenefs 1 have 

 jult mentioned : thefe I put into ditierent glailes. fome of which I 

 carried in luy pocket : and, in fome of them, after the fpace 

 of twenty four hours, 1 perceived tlie maggot to be pert'eclly 

 formed in the egg ; but. in the greater part of them. I found the 

 maggot imjH^rfcct, being dead, and the egg dried, with the Ihell con- 

 tracted. 1 caufed a drawing to be made, from the microfcope, 

 of one of thefe lait named eggs, becaule, in it, tlie limner could dil- 

 tingifuli all the parts of the nia2:got"s bod v. This is ihew n at 

 Jig.s,GHL 



I alfo placed before tlie microfcope one of the maggots, which, 

 at the fame time, had crept out of the egg, and caufed a draw ing to 

 be made of it as it then appeared. At Jig. 4, K L M, is the head, 

 and M N K. the body of this maggot. 



Upon aticutively obferving tliis maggot, I was mucli gratiiied ^^ ith 



