Book IIT. land of BARBADOS. 
The LonG-spoTTED Fiy or Lapy-sirp. 
Ca IS Fly exceeds not half an Inch in Length. 
Its Back and Head are finely {potted with Red: The interme. 
diate Spaces are of a ruflet Colour. 
There is likewife a {mall red Lady-bird generally to be feen upon 
Ochra-leaves. 
‘The GotpEN Lapy-sBirp. 
Ts very beautiful Infect is very feldom feen. 
It is about the Bignefs of the laft defcribed. 
Its Head, Wings, and Feet are, as it were, covered with burnithed 
Gold. 
The CANE-FLY, 
, / ‘HIS is a {mall whitith Fly, with Two membranaceous Wings. 
It is chiefly to be feen among thick-planted ripe Canes, 
The CoRN-FLY. 
% Ban is a fmaller Fly than the laft, and is to be feen hovering over 
Heaps of Guiney Corn, when in the Granaries. 
Its Colour is much the fame as that of the laft-mentioned, 
The MuscuHerto-Fcy. 
HIS derives its Name from Mu/ca, a general Name in the Latin 
Language for a Fly. 
Perhaps the Name of Merry-wing, applied to another Fly, from the 
Noife it makes with its Wings, would be more properly applied to this, 
if the Acceptation of the Word had not rendered it almoft univerfal, at 
leaft among Exglifh Writers. 
WEEVILS. 
FAIS is fo commonly found in decayed Corn and Flour in every 
Part of the World, that it {earce deferves a particular Defcription, 
It is a black fealy Fly, of neara Quarter of an Inch long. 
The Merry-Wina. 
THis is a very minute Fly, very troublefome, efpecially in calm 
Mornings and Evenings, to thofe Inhabitants who live on a fandy 
Soil near the Sea, 
They 
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