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CAufe^ as I douht ttot you 'Wtll in the defeSii^Ve fart, 



It ps now tirne to end thts tedious Letter, andto ajfure you thatlam 'with 

 great Affeciion^ 



Sirj Tonr wry humhle Ser^vant, 



W. Derham.. 

 P.S. 

 J forgot to iah notice that the Aurelia cfNr.2, Lr. b. hath many Fins on 

 each /tde, bet-ween its Thorax and Taily 'which keep in a perpetual tremulous 

 Alotion, "when the Aurelia is in the Water ^ butfall clofe to its Body out of the 

 Watevj 7vhich heijig eafily broken with a Touch^ is the reafon I could not lay 

 them in the Sfecimm to be feen. 



I have met ■with Svvaoimerdam de InfecJlis in Latin^ tranjlated by one 

 Henniaius about the Tear 1684. 



Mufca BombyUum refirenSf humeris rufisy cauda albicante, 



PRona pars tota, tumthoracisj tum abdominis, una cum capite & 

 cruribus,, nigra, & vel prorfus glabra, vel brevi admqdum & vix 

 confpicua lanugine hirfuta. Media fronte inter oculos antennae du^e 

 breviflimae ex eodems pundo exeunt. Thoracis fupinas anterior pars 

 ianugine denfa e rufo flavicante tegitur, pofterior nigra. Abdominis 

 fupini pars media nigra, depilis, lucida j.iaterales hinc.inde lanugine 

 partim nigra , partim (inferius fcil.) fulva veftiuntur. Caudam- fea 

 abdomen imum fupernCj excepto annulo extremo, areola tranfverfa 

 piiorum albentium ornat. Alas apum fuiiiles, verum bin^ tantum, li- 

 nea in medio tranfverfa unduiata nigra diftinto. 



Corporis forma brevi & fubrotunda, alarum parvitate, longa &. 

 denfa lanugine Bombylium refert ; aculeo tamen caret, & duabus tan- 

 tum alis advokt. Prirao vere inveni.. 



Mufca Bombylium referens^ toto corpore fufina parte, prater caudam^ lanHgim 

 efulvo albefcentey prona und cum cauda, nigrd obflto» 



A 



LiE pundis nigris crebris eleganter ukIqu 



Mufca hipennis apiformis, corporc huviy denfa lanugine rufa undi^ue ohfite, 



LM longiufculae funt. 



Mufca 



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