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i COMES. FO O TE DY S AV AG ez, 
SPHEX¢ PECTINIPES. 
Plate 3. 
Character of the Species. 
The ANT LERs are form’d of oval Joints, and turn like rams-horns. 
The Fore-reeT are form’d like combs, with three claws, and fhtiff 
hairs above. 
The Bopy is join’d clofe to the Trunk. Plate 3. 4 be 
This ftrong and fierce, tho’ heavy Fly, lives in caverns of the 
earth, in the fides of hills and cliffs; and in holes made in the mud- 
walls of our little villages. I received this from the North of Ire- 
land, where the mud-walls of one of the cabins on the fide of a 
hill, was wrought into the appearance of a Honeycomb, by the multi- 
tudes of thefe creatures. : 
Its Heap is of a chefnut brown. 
The Eyes are blue. 
The Antlers are brown; but the tip of each joint is ruddy. 
The ‘faws are amber-colour’d. 
The Feelers pale brown. 
The Trunx is black, and rough. 
The Scutcheon is grey. 
The Bopy is finooth, and fhining ; of a rufty iron colour, with bands 
of an orange yellow. 
The 4ir-4oles are brown. 
The Lecs are of a blue grey ; and the long hairs upon the fore ones, 
toward the feet, are yellowith. 
The WincGs are of a pale brown. 
The Stine, when the creature pleafes to fhew it, is of a fine po- 
lifh’d brown. 
This feems unqueftionably the Sphex Pedtinipes of the Syftema 
Nature. 
tt is drawn here, as fhewn by the fourth glafs of the lucernal 
microfcope ; not magnify’d in any vaft degree; but fufficiently to 
fhew all its parts. Creatures much fmaller require often larger figures 
to exprefs their organs diftin@lly. All magnitude is comparative; and 
to be ufeful, the inflrument fhould be employ’d with juft fo much 
power as is needful for diftinctnefs. 
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