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the places they inhabit in the day time. Some 

 (z) are feen flying in the day-time over the 

 flowers of honey-fuckles and other plants with 

 tubular flowers. Infecls of this fpecies feldom 

 fit to feed, but continue vibrating on the wing, 

 while they thruft the tongue or probofcis into 

 the flowers. 



IV. Infe&s of this clafs (a) are found in woods 

 hedges, meadows, fand-banks, walls, pales, 



fruits, and unbelliferous flowers ; fome (c) fly 

 about lakes and rivers in the day. 



V. The fifth divifion (d) including wafps (e), 

 bees, (f) 3 &c. may be feen about hedges (g), 

 fhrubs, flowers, and fruits. Wafps and bees 

 are the only winged infe&s that have any great 

 degree of poifon in them ; they fhould therefore 

 be taken with a pair of forceps, and handled 

 cautioufly on account of their flings, which are 



dangerous 



walls, pales, &c. is to give them a gentle preffure on the tho- 

 rax, or breaft, with the end of any thing fmooth, as a tobacco- 

 ftopper, or tooth-pick cafe : this will deprive them of fenfe and 

 motion for the prefent moment, and they will fall down on 

 whatever is held under them; a pin mould then be ftruck 

 through the thorax, which mould be preffed between the thumb 

 and finger of the left-hand, till it is felt to give way a little ; they 

 may then be ftuck in the receiving box, 

 (&) Spinx, hanvk-moth. 



(a) Neuroptera, from vsvpoy, a nerve, and wfe^ov, a wing, have 

 four membranaceous tranfparent naked wings, generally like 

 network, as in the Panorpa Coa, fig. 4. (b) Myrmeleon, heme- 

 robius, pearl-fly, Raphidia, camel-fly. (c) Libellula, dragon-fly, 

 Ephemera, may-fly. Phry ganez,fprMg~jly. 



[d) Hymenoptera, from v^w, a membrane, and irlzpov, a wing. 

 Infecls with four membranaceous wings, tail furnimed with a 

 fting ; as in the Tenthredo, fig. 5. {e) Vefpa, nvafp. [/) Apis, 

 bee. (g) Tenthredo, faiv-fly. Sirex, tailed <wafp. Ichneu- 



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