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the Ftgufes offom^ of. Mr. Leeweohoecks Micro/copied Ohfer'^ 
vations^ formerly fubliJh'tQn^\imb*g ^.60:^ j,6o^B J) to 
geiher mth iheir Explication, 
^"'1 "^His Gurious obferverj having been defired by the Pub* 
i liflier^ fioce his firft Communicatioos, already prin^ 
cd in thefe Papers, that, for further fatisfadioo 3 he would 
pleafe to traofcnit the Figures of what he had fo well obfervcdj 
and hehaviogDot only very obiigingly complied with that 
dcfirc^^ut alfo added New Obfervations 5 we thought .out 
felves bouod to do hicn right io publifhiog both the F?^»m 
of his former CommuDications, and his Additions thereun- 
to 5 though for this time we muft content our fd ves only with 
the former of thcfe, rclcrvsng the latter for another opportu- 
nity. And in the Explication of thefc Figures we (hall here 
give you 10 Eugliftj, what the obferver fcnt us in 
Dutcb 
See t A B. I. 
IN F^^.i. A B is the great Sting, or rather the Sheath or 
Gafeof thi^ Bee, out of which were taken the two Stings 
(for^that the Bee hath two, this obferveriormerly acquainted 
us with 5) E is the cavity of the (heath, in which the two 
ftings, by and by to be defcribedj lye ; like a quill pulled out 
of a fowl's wing, and of that cut off a third part in lengtbg, 
and by its fides bent a little inwards towards E. D is the 
ihickneis of the Cafe beneath And about DA the two 
Scings ftiew themfelves, each in a place by it felf,* which I 
have feen my felf^ when I broke this thick part of the Sheath 
in pieces^ 
lnFig.7. HI is part of the Sting taken out of the Sheath 
A B, whkh appears a litttejHe^ways^ whence it is, that the 
crooks or forks K K. do not (how fo big eor fliarp, as indeed 
they are. L, is the back of the ftiog without forks ; which 
Ede or back is almoft as broad as one of the fides of the fling, 
when tbf crooks appear. 
