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 yonng, than flie is devoured by it ; and 

 that the Sphex fhould be able fo readily 

 to kill the caterpillar of a Moth, then 

 bury it in the earth, and there depo- 

 fited hereggs in it. Nor can wewith- 

 out admiration behold the fame fpecies 

 of Aphis, which was viviparous in the 

 fummer, become oviparous in the au- 

 tumn. 



Almoflinnumerable examples might 

 be brought of the fingularities in the 

 eggs of infects ; we fhall, however, only 

 mention thofe of the Hemerobius, which 

 are depofited on a footftalk ; thofe of 

 the Phalxna Neuftria, which are placed 

 regularly in a ring round the branch of 

 fome tree, and the compound eggs of 

 the Blatta. 



Metamarphojis. There are no infe&s, 

 except thofe of the Aptera clafs, but 

 what are continuaily undergoing fome 



transformation. 



