88 MEMOIR OF 



batter of the consistence of a jelly, or something 

 tnicker ; of a middle colour, between syrup of 

 violets, and the conserve of red roses, of an a< 

 taste, and unpleasant smell. In each of these, at 

 the concave end, there lies one bee-maggot, 

 which feeds upon the forementioned matter till it 



AS to its full bigness, and then makes and 

 encloseth herself in a theca or husk of a dark red 

 colour, and ovate figure, in which she is changed 

 into a bee ; the remainder of her food you may 

 find dried into powder at the convex end, and her 



rements at the concave without the theca. 

 The bees I found in your box (which are the only 

 ones I have yet seen) were of a shorter and thicker 

 shape than the common honey bee, more hairy, 

 c. But the surest mark to distinguish them is, 

 that the forcipes or teeth of these are bigger, 

 broader, and stronger ; in shape like those of a 



-p or hornet ; from which she also sufficiently 

 differs in having a tongue like a bee, which they 

 want. 



" They made their way out along the channel 

 thorough all the intermediate cartrages, and not 

 thorough the solid wood. Of the corruption of 

 the matter within the cases, when the bee mag- 

 gots or nymphae happen to miscarry, are bred 

 like little hexapods, which produce beetles, mag- 

 gots which produce flies, mites, &c. From what 

 hath been observed concerning this tree, and by 

 a great many ihore parallel instances, we may 

 answer the quaere of some that have written of 

 bees, whether it be the old bee or the bee maggot 



