FOR 
~Puaronrs. -Rufous; abdomen brownifh. “Linn, 
A ee minute {pecies found in Egypt. 
— ts. Red; abdomen black aa fomewhat vil- 
lous. 
"Native oe Egypt ‘and Arabia. 
fo etiole with tranfverfely compreffed tuber. 
cles ;_ firit fegment oF the abdomen contraéted ; mandibles 
projeétin inn. 
The Tee is black with three is dots, the abdomen 
_ legs hairy. This inhabits Amer. 
aA. Black; abdomen ovate a hairy, Scop. 
Native of Europe, and lives in decayed trees under the 
ark, 
enosA. Head and foes black ; sedomex cylindrical 
atid brown; fcale of the petiole thick and entire; legs 
teflaceous; wings white with teftaceous veins;. and 4 brown 
sabi pot. inn, 
ntr ae eu 
Mee 1s Rufous; eyes bla des abdomen brown on 
the pena ; “feale of the petiole entire. Linn. 
This and the four solowing {pecies are natives. of Eu- 
rope. 
Gu: Black 3 glabrous’; ; fcale of the petiole. bie 
dentated ; anette a the abdomen whitith ; legs rufous. 
{uin 
3 
Te ESTACEA. Tetacsons brown, and fomewhat. downy ; ; 
Anteunze legs. brown 5 3 wings winite with a fer ruginous 
ale. 
heads as wide as the Abdomens 5 
mouth antennae, and legs 
USCE Black ; 
Seale of fe ae very fhort 
reddifh-bréwn. inn.” . 
ts. -Head “aad thorax black; abdomen 
browns ; jaws,-antenna, and legs teltaccous; wings hyaline. 
TorMICcA-/eo, the ant-lion, t ae nameé given by cation to 
a very remarkable f{pecies of infeé&t, which is, in its perfec 
ftate, a winged creature, zpproaching to sie nature of the 
libellula, ov esa te in its prior a creeping 
i and addrefs in cxtching its prey. 
that iti is ee by the e of forn mica- 
Sikes 
Tt is in this 
leo, as it chiefly feeds upon ants. 
Formica, literally an ant, has’ oe ete by the.old 
medical writers to a [pe of wart, of ablack colour, and 
ei a broad, feffile bute, w hich Foreftus obferves, when it 
-d by excilicn, undergoes 1 much ek ee 
that arifing from the flinging of ants, whe 
ceived its name. This fpecies of fenfat ion is alfo denomic 
nated for: mication, for micatio, and by t 3 diigo 
myrmeciafis, from pugung, an ant. m for: micatio is 
likewife applied to a fenfation ne eccutting in the 
fin, as if ants or ae {mall infeets w Were creeping upon its 
furface. See Forc{ti Opera, lib. xxiii. obf. 9. 
MICA, among Spor i bi the name of a difeafe inci- 
dena an ela See Spa 
FO TIO. See ae 
FORMICA TION, a term vale among Builders for 
arching or vaultin g: 
MICHI, in’ Geostaphy, a clufter of {mall iflands 
os rocks in the Mediterranean, near the coaft of hak 
‘between: Monte Chriftio and Pianofa. N. lat. 42° 40’, IE. 
long. 10" 254, 
-FORMI icoLA, a town er: Naples in Lavora 5 fix 
“miles IE. of Capua 
FORMIGAL ES a town ae ee in the province of 
Aragon; ro miles $.E. 0 me 
FORMIGI, a town of Healy, in the. i aa of; the 
four miles S. of Modena, . 
Panaro ; 
coaft, in the Medite 
FOR 
FORMIGNANO, a. — of the duchy of Urbino; 
feven miles from Foffom 
FORM 
UE, a final x roc icky iland, sel the French 
rranean. N.'lat. 43° . long. 6° 
in the Medieraeas, neg the 
N. lat. 36° 46’. E. long. 21° 49/. 
ING is eae for the a& of giving “being or 
irth to any thing, 
The word is allo fimply ufed for giving the figure to any 
thing. The potter forms his veflels as - foe Geo- 
a. era ee to form all kinds of 
re) ufed for. the producing of a es : 
li cea ae of the face iia to be formed. 
“ORMING of a Siege, in Milita y Language, is the 
making lines of ‘circ unwvalatio, to fortify the camp, and 
difpofing things for the attack o 
They alfo fay, to form : a fyuadron or anatase mean- 
ing, to range the foldiers in form of a {quadron, &c. 
eterm is alfo ufed in {peaking of a body of forces, 
ing out of any order of {quadrons, battalions, &c. 
do halt, range eral in order, and put themfelves in 
a condition for the att 
Forming the lines is is drawing up a, cavalry, and 
TT into line of battle. See Lin 
MING the flank, Angle. See ie 
in Grammar, is ufed in pee of certain 
ea "of ae which are made from others, by a change 
of certain ethers: 
he prefent tenfe is formed from the infinitive. Com 
pound and. wena e words alfo, and even all that have nee 
thus, the 
PORMOCHE, to be formed. 
CHE, in Guegraphy, a {mall ifland in the Gre- 
cian FORMDSE. 3 nine miles N. of Pa aa os, 
RMOSA, or Tat: salen an n the Chinefe 
122° E. long., is about 240 miles in length from north to 
ae and abou t 6o miles in ey greateit bre eadth from eaft 
o welt, but much seas 
eat lying fo near to the ae 4 » Was no 1 
he Chinefe ‘until the year 1430 ee Datch formed 
an eltablifhment in the weftern part of it in 1634, an 
built the fort of Ze aland, by which etl eee to them- 
felves the principal port ane the iflan ut they. were 
driven from thence in 16 r 1661, a Chinefe pirate, 
who made himfelf matter of- le wel eee par o belies 
afterwards, wiz, in We fubmitted ¢ a _ the au tho rity 
Kang- -hi, empero ina. Thi ya ie 
chain of mo erty running fom et to a into two 
parts, the ealtern and weftern. The former part is little 
ksown, but the latter is divided | into dies iftin 
ments, pike eg o the governor of Tat- the 
pital of the ifland, who is himfelf fubje 
ae rovince a ‘ . is pa 
the preg Src 
b a great number of r 
mountains. Its air 
ae in si eel anc 
— 
orange, ae na, ee appl = vas. papaws, ae taco 
nuts 5 
Ogs, which abound i in China, here 
re. few, 5 oom poultry, fuch as fowle, geefe, and _ 
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