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This infect is pretty common both in St. Elizabeth* s and W eftmor eland % but I 

 have never obferved it in any other part of the iiland. It has very large eyes, ; 

 is not eafijy provoked to fting. 



nd 



APIS 4. Major t fufco & aurantiaco virgata. The Wafp. 



Thefe infects are very 



and, upon the leaft prov 



fly at thof 



difturb 



d flick by fo 



Their nefts are formed in comprefTed cakes of a triangulai 



form 



y fimpl 



g 



which rile out of 



c 



g 



the limbs of 



or corners of rock 



The 



are 



all 



pper an- 



mb 



and open on the under fide of 



from the 



ways warned 



kes j but the upper fuperh* 



The holes are hexai 



with a fort of varnifh, which preven 



d 



any 



d liga 

 damag" 



APIS 5. Subfufca innocua alveariis lutcfis. The Free- Mafon. 



Thefe infects live in fmall focieties, and m^ke their cells of mud. They build 

 generally under cover, to protect their nefts from the weather. 



APIS 6. Mellifera oblonga vulgaris. The common Bee. 



Thefe ufeful infects have been frequently introduced to Jamaica j but they 

 do not often thrive there, and the want of fuccefs is gencr.Jiy attributed to tho 

 pernicious ant?. I have feen them, however, raifed extremely well at Mr. Rip- 

 ley s, in Liguanea ; and do not know of any method, befides common care, that 

 was taken *o preferve them. He had above fixty hives under the eves of one 

 thatched houfe, when I was there. 



APENDIG ASTER 1. Cruribus 



po/ierioribus longijji- 



mis. Tab. 44. f. 6 



The purfe-belliedFIy 



Th 



feet is about the fi 



f 



dinary fly, and much of the 



fame appearance at a diftance. The head is of an oval form, furnithed with a p 

 of fmall nippers, and adorned with a pair of moderate fimpie feelers, fixed between 

 the eyes. A fmall nick joins this to the thorax, out of which the wings rife, two on 

 each fide, refembling thofe of the common fly very much : but from the bottom of 

 the breaft it throws out two pair of fmall legs; and the remaining hinder part di- 

 vides immediately into two lobes, out of which the hinder legs, which are vaftly 

 longer and larger than the others, rife. From the middle of the back, between 

 the wings, and from the part oppofire to the fpace that lies between the fecond 



d third pair of leg-, it throws out a fknder round tube 



d nightly compreflld bag behind the lobes formed by the hinder part of 



g 



body, and terminates in a fmall vag 



of wh 



aculeum appears 





point of a fimpl 



v- 





FORMICA 1. Maxima rufifcens t rcjlro cuneiformi. 



Tab. 



43 



f. 12. 



ie Lion-Ant 



Thefe infects are frequent in Jamaica, but not very troublefbme, as they keep 



The male is of a beautiful greeniih blue about the head and 

 ft* but of a brown colour, like the others, behind. There are three remark- 



fiel 





chiefly 



br . 



able little glands placed 



ly between the eyes of them 



FORMICA 2. Major, Ji/pra terra m nidulans. 



The Wood - L o u fe . 



Thefe infects, on the appearance of rain, quit the ground, and climb into the 

 branches of trees, or along the walls of houfes, to build their nefts in the branches 



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