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The male infects, like maleHawks^ 

 are always fmaller than the females. 



In the propagation of their ipecies 

 they are remarkably careful, fo that it 

 is with the greateft difficulty that flies 

 are kept from depofiting their eggs on 

 frefh meat ; the cabbage Butterfly from 

 laying them on cabbage, and other in- 

 fecls from depofiting them m the feve- 

 ral places peculiar to each. The Scara- 

 baeus Pilularius and Carnifex, are de- 

 ferving of our attention, as they afford a 

 mutualaffiftance to each other; forwhert 

 the female has laid her eggs in a little 

 ball of dung, the males, with their feet, 

 which are axlform, affifl: the female to 

 roll it to fome fuitable place, as Arifr.o- 

 tle and Pliny formerly, and Loening 

 has lately obferved. 



It is very wonderful to obferve, that 

 in the Coccus and Onifcus, the fe- 

 male has no fooner brought forth her 



young, 



