Dr. Lifter to Mr. Ray. 8 t 



thinks he is very valetudinary, and you have ofteii 

 alarm'd me with his Illnefles. My humble Serviced 

 to him. .1 thank you for the Book of Proverbs you 

 defign me. I cannot methinks exclude thefe hair-* 

 tail'd Infedfo from the Family or Genus of Wafps, al- 

 tho' all of them that I know, are, in a ftri& Sehfea 

 neither Favicous nor Gregarious, nor have artificial 

 Meat ftored up for them y yet have they the Shape and 

 Parts of Waips exactly, as- well in the Worm and 

 Chryfalis, as when they are in Perfection : Befides^ 

 I have obferved a peculiar Note belonging to thd 

 Bee- Kind, which is not wanting in thefe ; and that 

 is three Balls in a Triangle, in the Forehead of theni 

 all, which no body hitherto, that I know of, has ta- 

 ken notice of. But I much like the making of Ge~ 

 nus's and Tribes ex moribus 6? vita $ tho' I would ftdQ 

 as near as may be, have the Form excluded. I have 

 now feen the November Book ; and I find in my jfd? 

 verfaria, that I have formerly dug out of the Ground 

 at Bumell in LincolnJIoire many juft fuch-ltke Cafes^ 

 made of thin Wafers, or Membranes, one (ticking 

 in a dire£t Line to an other, &c. In the fame Place 

 I very frequently met with little hollow Balls, of the 

 Shape and Size of Piftol Bullets, of yellow Wax^ 

 wherein was one fmall white Maggot, without any 

 Meat at all. Indeed thefe Balls were much tenderer 

 than Wax, and of a very fragrant Smell, and pef-* 

 haps might ferve them as well for Food as Houfing^ 

 If I had the Table of Spiders, I now could make 

 fome fmall Alterations and Additions td it. I have' 

 this laft Month writ over a new Copy of my Hiftory 

 of Spiders, (which is the 4 th fince 1 put my Notes 

 into any Order) and infected therein all the laft Sum- 

 mer's Obieivations and Experiments. I find only 

 two or three new Spiders, and one to be removed in- 

 to another Tribe, to which it more properly belongs. 

 When you pleafe to fend toe an Account of the acid 

 Liquor of Piftniresj I will return iomething ctincerfl* 



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