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to the bringing up the Larvae of infe$s, 

 and attentively obferving their various 

 transformations, their oeconomy in pro- 

 Curing food, their dexterity in prepa- 

 rkig habitations, and every other thing 

 they are engaged in. By this means many 

 infects, and their wonderful properties, 

 which have remained in obfcurity from 

 the beginningof time, would be brought 

 to light, more efpecially if thefe gen- 

 tlemen would themfelves defcribe or 

 communicate their difcoveries to fome 

 academy of fciences. Thus would they 

 at one and the fame time enrich the 

 fcience of natural hiftory, and tranf- 

 mit their names to pofterity with ho* 

 nour. 



F I N I S, 



