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combs of the same matter the former do, but naked, without any cover, and 

 therefore commonly choose the shelter of a house, &c. 



3. Bombylus Teredo, These bees eat into timber, and there make their 

 nests. This was in the joist of a house, so firm and sound, that it was very 

 hard entering with a piercer ; the hole was but just large enough for the bee to 

 creep in at, and went right up, about 2 inches in the wood, and then in a trans- 

 verse line at least half a foot on each side, which seemed to be twice as wide as 

 the entrance. 



4. Oestrum. Forte Asilus Virginiensis Pennei. 



5. Musca carnivora vivipara. A small brown fly, that discharges live 

 maggots. 



6. Cicada et earum exuviae, Mouf. J 30. Those insects that destroyed the trees 

 in New England were cicadas. But Mr. Petiver thinks this a mistake. 



7. LocustEB, or Grashoppers. Barrard in Exod. 667-8. 



8. Mantis. It is neither of the tree that MoufFet describes, p. 118; nor are 

 those 2 figures in his Appendix like it. That of Piso most resembles it, lib. 5. 

 cap. '21, p. 317, but his of an insect becomes a vegetable, which I dare not aver 

 of mine. 



g. Blattas. These cockroaches are one of the plagues of this country. They 

 are oviparous and large. 



10. Blatta Volans. These are very rare, I have seen but this one here. 



11. Cimices, or Wall Lice. These are another of our plagues, for where 

 there is not great care taken to destroy them, they are as numerous in our beds, 

 as the former are in our kitchens. 



12. Cicindela mas, or the Fire- Fly. Cicindela Mariana vaginis teneris fuscis 

 marginibus fulvis. This is not that great Virginian kind, whose head shines ; 

 nor is it that smaller one, which Piso says the Brasilians call memoa, nor the 

 common kind, though much of that shape and size. This emits its light at 2 

 crescents, but the whole tail of our's shines, which it contracts and dilates at 

 pleasure. Its sheath wings are of a dark purple, edged with yellow ; and so is 

 its head or helmet. 



13. Cicindela Caroliniana vaginis omnino nigricantibus. 



14. Cicindela Fsemina, or Glow-worm. Its armed back and head, are in 

 joint armour of a deep murray colour, fastened to the thorax ; the tail made of 

 9 shelly rings, in the last of which are visible the 2 shining points. Its head is 

 black, so small that one cannot without the help of a glass perfectly discern the 

 contexture of it. Its eyes, if it have any, like those of a snail, stand on the 

 tops of 2 horns. It has 6 legs. ; 



