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Of Inserts. ' 



A Bug. 



THere is a certain kind of Bug like a Beetle, but of a 

 glittering brafs colour, with four ftrong Tinfel 

 Wings; their Bodies are full of Corruption or white 

 Matter like a Maggot; being dead, and kept awhile, they 

 will ftench odioufly; they beat the Humming Birds from 

 the Flowers. 



[40] The Wafp. . 



The Wafps in this Countrey are pied, black and white, 

 breed in Hives made like a great Pine Apple, their 

 entrance is at the lower end, the whole Hive is of an Afh 

 Colour, but of what matter its made no man knows; 

 wax it is not, neither will it melt nor fry, but will take 

 fire fuddenly like Tinder: this they faften to a Bow, or 

 build it round about a low Bufh, a Foot from the 

 ground. 



The flying Gloworm. 



The flying Gloworm, flying in dark Summer Nights 

 like fparks of Fire in great number; they are common 

 liewife, in Palejlina. 



1 The author continues his entomological observations, in his Voyages, p. 115; 

 and the account is fuller than Wood's ; New- England's Prosfed, chap. xi. 



