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The caufe of this uncertainty may be partly attributed to our entire 



ignorance of their manner of life or transformations. Some of the 



Mutillae have wings, and others are without. Authors have con- 



ed the apterous In r e£r.s as the females, and the winged kind as 



which opinion is countenanced by numberlefs inflances in 



., fee is. Others- have however maintained' 



that both males anc lies are winged, and that the apterous In- 



fecls : neuters, ing in fupport of fuch opinion, that the 



i focieties like the Wafps. Ants, and Bees. — From 



ns on a number of exotic fpecies of this tribe, we have 



no doubt that the winged Life£b are males, and the apterous kind 



females. 



Yeates alludes to three fpecies of Mutillae that have been found in 

 England, but names no other than the Mutilla Europaea ; and this is 

 the only kind we have ever found. We have taken it on a fandy 

 pathway, near the entrance of Coomb Wood, Surry. 



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