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dangerous. Some (A) of this divifion have 

 flings, but no poifon, and are to be found on 

 the flowers of umbelliferous plants, when the fun 

 feines hot in the middle of the day; at which 

 time others (i) are feen on fand-banks, walls, 

 and pales. 



VI. Flies of various kinds conftitute the 

 next clafs (k) ; they fly about the tops of (/) 

 trees, little hills, horfes, cows, fheep, ditches, 

 dung-hills, and every offenfive objeel:. Some 

 (m) are found on all forts of flowers, particu- 

 larly thofe of a foetid fmell. Many (n) of thefe 

 are moft eafily taken when they begin to feed ; 

 for in the middle of the day they are fo quick 

 and aelive, that it is almofl impoflible to catch 

 them. 



VII. The la ft great divifion (o) contains 

 fcorpions, fpiders, crabs, lobfters, &c. It is 

 iieceffary only to obferve here, that all kinds of 

 infeBs having no wings, may be preferved in 

 fpirits, brandy or rum, except crabs, lobfters, 

 and the like, which may conveniently be pre- 

 ferved dry. 



Under each clafs of infecls, I {hall relate tke 



man, khneumon-fly . Sphex, ichneumon-wci/p. Vefpa. Apis. 

 (&) Mutilla, naked-bee. \i) Chrylis. 



(k) Diptera, from cW two, and -zrlspop, a wing, are fuch as have 

 only two wings, and poifers, as in the fly, fig. 6. (/) Oeftrus* 

 gad-fly. Mufca, ffy, Tabanus, nvhame. Hippobofca, horfe^ 



(m) Tipnla. Conops. Afilus, njoafp-fly, (?z) Bombylius, 

 fh<wer-bree%e. 



{a) APT ERA, from without, and «srfyov, a wing, infedts 

 leaving no wings, as tfce fpider, fig. 7, 



methods 



