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tail, and yellow girdles, which turned July 10. into a fmall filk- 

 bag, and mothed the 26th. 



36. Small Reddijb Ocra Moth. Tab. 37. Phalena minor Suri- 

 xcun. e flavo rubefcens. The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, 

 thick fet with warts, and black-haired liars ; chryfalifed into a 

 filk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, (haded 

 with red, as the painting reprefents it. Gaz. 146. K. L. 7. 



37. Pappaw Moth. Tab. 40. Phalena minor Surinam, fafciis 

 notulifque flavis. The caterpillar is compofed of black and white 

 rings, with a green belly, from whence come feveral long hairs, 

 •which grow much thicker at the ends ; chryfalifed June 10. into a 

 filk-bag, mothed July 3. into a lead-colour moth, with yellow cir- 

 cles, waved girdles, and part of the legs of the fame colour. Gaz. 

 J45. S. 12. T. 1 1. V. 



38. Small Grey Moth, pounced and fpotted with black. Tab. 

 54. Phalena minor Surinam, cinerea, nigro punctata. The ca- 

 terpillar is black and white, with yellow chains, not hairy, but 

 finely pounced j chryfalifed June 4. mothed 21. Gaz. 148. 10, 

 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. . 



39. Small Tricolour Marbled Silk-Moth. Tab. 21. Phalena 

 minor Surinam, pulchre marmorata. The painting mews it mar- 

 bled with black and pale green, with white veins interfperfed : 

 the caterpillar whitilh, with black rings, thick fet\yith flight long- 

 ifti briftles, reddifh at the bottom ; chryfalifed May 28. into its 

 filk-bag, mothed June 7. Gaz. 150. 8, 9. 143. 8, 9, 11, 12. 



40. Small Bufli-tailed Battata Silk-Moth. Tab. 41. Phalena 

 minor Surinam, cauda pilofa. Gaz. 146. 22, 23. 



41. Small Slender-tailed Battata Silk-Moth. Tab. 41. Pha- 

 lena minor Surinam, cauda tenuiore. G. 146. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. 



Both thefe produce fmall hairy caterpillars, at firft green : 

 their motion is very quick, backwards or forwards : they change 

 red, and then into a filk-bag about Aug. 24. ; about the 30th 

 jnothed into the two varieties, as above, (N. B.) which I fuppofe 

 are male and female. 



42. The Pigmy Ocra Fly. Tab. 37. Phalena forte minima 

 Surinamenjis. The pofture of this fmall infect is fomewhat ob- 

 Icurely exprefFed : it was hatched from a fmall white grub with 

 black fpots, which fed on Ocra leaves. March 1. hatched the 

 fly above. 



CAP. IV. Bees, Wasps, 



And other Tranfparent and Membranaceous Winged Flies. 



1 . / "X~ V H E Black Rumble-Bee with yellow Girdles. Tab. 48. 



J[ Bombylius niger Surinam, zonis luteis. The legs, horns, 

 and body black, except a yellow girdle about its waift, and three 

 or four more near its tail : that part of its wings next the body is 

 fomewhat clouded, the reft tranfparent. The caterpillar thick and 

 fhort, its body yellow and black, befet with pencil-like hairy tufts 

 of the laft colour: this changed into a filk-bag Auguft 3. and 

 broke 15. into the bee. Gaz. 147. 7, 8, 9. 13, 14, 15. 



2. The Streaked Tazvny Bee. Tab. 36. Gaz. 141;. 6. Apis 

 minor Surinam, ftriatus fulvus. Hatched in April, about ten days 

 after it chryfalifed. 



3. The Green-bodied Bee-Fly. Tab, 58. Gaz. 149. 6, 7, 8. 

 Mu/ca Apiformis Surinam, corpore viridi. 



4. The Blue-bodied Bee-Fly. Tab. 58. Gaz. 149. 12,13,14. 

 4, 5, 9. Mu/ca Apiformis Surinam, corpore coeruleo. This has 

 darkifh wings, clouded in the middle ; the lower part of its body 

 blueilh ; but the upper part of the legs are red, with fpots of the 

 fame about the head and fhoulders. This and the laft hatched 

 from filk-bags, whofe grubs fed on the Square-Bean tree. 



5. The Grafs Bee-Fly. Tab. 22. Gaz. 143. 14, 15, 16. 

 Mu/ca Apiformis Surinam, ex atro fulphurea. This black and yel- 

 low fly hatches a fmooth red caterpillar, with green and white 

 ftreaks ; feeds on Grafs : it turned into a filk-bag Aug. 10. and 

 hatched the 24th. 



6. The Common Surinam Wafp. Tab. 54. Gaz. 148.15*16, 

 17. 10, 11, 12, 13. Vcfpa vulgi Surinam, niger, zonis luteis. 

 Thefe are very troublefome to the inhabitants, and commonly 

 build in their houfes. 



7. Surinam Wafp-Fly. Tab* 60. Gaz. Mufca bipennis Ve/pa 

 facie. Thefe referable our common Englilh forts. N. B. The 

 coffin, and its very hairy ftrange large caterpillar, which our 

 authorefs fays thefe flies came from, I am of opinion, produces a 

 much larger infect. 



8. Buff Wafp. Tab. 1. Vefpa Surinam, fulva. 



9. Brown Wafp. Tab. 60. Vefpa /u/ca, Marybonfe Surina- 

 menfehus dicta. Thefe are very vexatious to the inhabitants, abroad 

 and at home, as alfo to the cattle : they are hatched from a fmall 

 white grub. 



10. Flying Ant. Tab. 18. Formica Surinam, alata. Gaz. 

 142. 19, 20. 



11. Naked Ant. Tab. 18. Formica major vulgaris. Thefe 

 are fo great devourers of the leaves of trees, and particularly the 

 Guava, that in one night they will make them as naked as a 

 broom. They have a peculiar way of quickly conveying themfelves 

 from one tree or bough to another, after this manner : The firft 

 ant faftens his teeth into the twig of a tree ; the reft cling to one 

 another's tails, after the manner of a chain, and fo long as to 

 reach the next tree by the help of a wind, which is there feldom 

 wanting. Thefe prey alfo on all infects, but have a peculiar 

 enmity to the fpiders, with whom they have often great conflicts : 

 they make large cells in the ground, fometimes to the depth of 

 eight feet, and large nefts on the branches of trees, with fuch art 



that no weather can offend them ; from thefe they march but once 

 a year, and then make a general forage. Their eggs, or rather 

 gentles, are much coveted and eaten by the poultry, which fattens 

 them beyond oats or barley. 



12. Surinam Harp-Fly. Tab. 49. Lierman Bclgis. Cicada 

 Surinam, vulgaris facie. The Dutch call this Lierman, becaufe 

 the mufick it makes is like that of a harp. It is a fwift flyer, and 

 difficult to be caught. I: has a green body, with a long ftiff pro- 

 bofcis, or fnout, which it refts under its breaft. This, from a 

 flow hexapod, or fix-legged grub, with the like fnout and make 

 of body, after it had lain twenty days dormant, hatched. Gaz. 

 147. 10, 11. 



13. Lantern-Cricket, Tab. 49. Lantern-Fly, Muf Regalis 

 Societat. Tab. 13. p. 158. Lanternaria major alis eleganter 

 piclis. Gaz. 147. 12. So called from the fhape of its head, and 

 the light it carries in it ; are about four inches long, of which 

 the lantern is one and a half; the laft finely marbled with flefh- 

 colour, green, and yellow ; the wings alfo elegantly painted with 

 much the fame colours, and black nutmeg-veins. Thefe make a 

 noife in the night, and fhine then only : they are pretty frequent 

 in this ifland. 



14. Sky Lantern-Cricket. Tab. 49. Lanternaria minor alis 

 tranflucidis. This is lefs than the iaft, viz, three inches long ; 

 the wings tranfparent, and body greeniih ; the lantern finely mar- 

 bled, as the other. 



15. Broad-fhouldered Green Mantis. Tab. 27. Mantis Suri- 

 nam, viridis, humeris late expanfis. Gaz. 151. 4. The body of 

 this three inches long, and the wings, ftretched, above four : from 

 its head to the body it is largely extended on each fide, with a 

 membranaceous flap, which, with its wings, &c. are moitly green. 

 This hatches a caterpillar-like grub, which turns into a ftraw-like 

 fwadled tail-coffin, which produces a large tun-bodied, winglefs, 

 green infect, which perhaps is the other fex to that above. 



16. Great Water-Scorpion. Tab. 56. Scorpio aquatica Surinam. 

 maxima alata, G. 149. 10. The body three inches long, and the 

 wings extended fix ; the under wings tranfparent ; the upper, and 

 whole body, brown. This has a large horn in his forehead, and 

 each foot ends fmgle-tined. 



17. Naked Water-Scorpion. Tab. 56. Scorpio aquat. Surinam. 

 maxima "mpennis. This is fomewhat lefs than the laft, and is 

 confined to the water, having no wings ; its body fwathed : the 

 toes differ from the other, being (as the figure expreffes it) forked. 

 Both thefe live on young frogs, &c. Gaz. 150. i. 



CAP. V. Sheath-Winged Insects, 



As Beetles of various Kinds. 



18. OUrinam Stag-Beelle. Tab. 48. Cervus <volans maximus, 



vaginis e fufco & fulvo mixtus. Its horns much refera- 

 ble our Englifh kind ; but its feelers are wholly geniculated, the 

 angles of its fhoulders fharp-poirited, and the whole body much 

 larger : if rightly painted, the fheaths are chefnut and tawny. 

 Gaz. 147. 13, 14, 15, 8. 



19. Great Tricolor Surinam Goat-Chaffer. Tab. 28. Capricornus 

 maximus e nigro, rubro flavoque eleganter piclus. G. 151. 7. 

 This very beautiful beetle is three inches long, exquiiitely mar- 

 bled with black, red and yellow ; his fore-legs above fix inches ; 

 his horns above five, elegantly knot-jointed. N. B. This, if not 

 the fame, is of that fpecies, which the Muf. Reg. Soc. Angl. hath 

 given a figure of in Tab. 13. Pag. 163. defcribed under the 

 American title bf Nbcoonaca. 



20. Greater Reddijh Surinam Goat-Chaffer. Tab. 24. Capri- 

 cornus Surinam, major rufefcens. G. 143. 17, 18, 19. Three 

 inches long, and deeper coloured than the next. 



21. Lefler Reddijh Surinam Goat-Chaffer. Tab. 24. Capri- 

 cornus Surinam, minor rufefcens. Ib. Shorter than the laft by half 

 an inch. Both grubs are pretty large, and whitifh ; found in 

 rotten wood. 



22. 2"ellow-/potted Goat-Chaffer. Tab. 24. Capricornus niger 

 Surinam, maculis flavis. Ib. The mite-worm of this feeds on the 

 roots of the Prickly Yellow Poppy, and grows into an orange- 

 coloured grub, with a black head and tail. Ib. 20. 



23. Great Black Surinam Piper. Tab. 48. Curculio Surinam. 

 maximus nigre/cens. G. 147. 14, 15. Is one of the largeft of its 

 kind, being near three inches long, black and ftreaked. The 

 mites of this grow into a large whitilh grub or cofs, which the 

 Dutch call Palm-worm, from its feeding on that tree : thefe the 

 natives broil and eat, efteeming them as a very great dainty. 



24. Black Batata Comber. Tab. 50. Peilinarius Surinam, medius, 

 niger. This beetle is about an inch and a half long, with horns 

 which end toothed like a comb, as in our Englifh chaffers, &c. 

 Thefe produce grubs, as the next. Gaz. 147. 18, 19. 



25. Large Golden Saw-Horn. Tab. 50. Gaz. 147. 16, 17. 

 Serra-cornu max. Surinam, e viridi aureo re/vlgens. This is a very 

 beautiful beetle, greenifh, with a golden luftre : it is three inches 

 long. The horns of this tribe are finely notched on one fide only. 

 The grub is large, and fomewhat hairy, and when confined will 

 gnaw their way through bafkets, &c. Both thefe feed on the 

 Batata root. 



26. American Cock-Roach. Tab. 1 . Kakkerlaca Belgis, Blatta 

 Surinam, vulgatiffima & exitialis. Gaz. 140. 1. 1. 1. Aie gieeJs r 

 devourers of all fweet things ; much delighted with the fruit of 

 the Pine-Apple : very pernicious in houfes, eating clothes, li- 

 nen, &c. much refemble, in make and mifchief, thofe on fhip-board. 



27. Black Lady-Co-vj with a red Back. Tab. 2. Scarabxolus 



H Surinam, 



