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piece of architecture cannot be viewed, or reviewed, without 

 admiration, and a profound reverence of that Being who is the 

 fountain of wifdom. I am obliged for this curiofity to my re- 

 fpectful friend, Chriftopher Reed, of Chipchace, Efq; who firll difco- 

 vered it, and was prefent with me to fee it carefully taken out 

 by his fervants. 



--6. The blue and gold-yello<w Apis (f) is fometimes about broken 

 clay-banks or fears, by waters, and old ruinous buildings, in 

 .warm places, but is not common. It is fuperior to all the bee- 

 tribe for beauty. It is fmaller than the common bee, the thorax- 

 and the head blue, very fplendent, with a fmall tincl of green, 

 the body yellow, like burniflied gold for luftre, the wings brown, 

 the antcnnse black, with twelve articulations ; the laft fegment 

 of the body but one, and the thorax clentated behind. It flings 

 like the common bee. 



7. They/Aw// black and yellow Apis (g) is frequent in gardens, and 

 about old houfes. It is a fmall, but beautiful infecft, of the -wafp- 

 kind ; the thorax, head, and antenna black ; four of the articu- 

 lations or fegments of the body of the fame colour, with annu- 

 lar golden fafcie, glofTy and fplendent. Though it is fo fmall, it 

 will affault and kill a common domeftic flic three or four times 

 as large as itfelf, and drag it with cafe to its recefs. 



(f) Vefpa argillacea variegata f. fuperbe colorata. Frifcb. Germ. 9. p 19. t. 10. f. r. Apis 

 parietinanitida, collar! caeruleo, abJomine aureo. Linn. Act. Upf. 1736. p. 28. n. c. Apis 

 nitiJa ; thoiace vjridi csruleo, abdomine inaurnto. Faun. Suec. p. 302. n. 1004. 



(g) Apis nigra; tibiis ferrugineis, abdomins maculis utrinque quatuor flavef.entibus. 

 Linn, Faun. Suec. p. 303. n. ion. 



8. The 



