ry them dead out of tlie Field j from tHeIr Bank. Butif you^put 
Bldck Ants imo a Bank of the Eed, the Black feem tobefo fenfi- 
bleof the ftrangenefs of the place they are in^ that there they will 
not meddle with the Red, but as if they were frighted;, and con- 
cerned for nothing but felf-prefervation, run away. 
3. Upon opening of thefe Banksj I obfei ve firft a tv^ite fubjlanccj 
which to the bare eye looks like the fcarterings of fine white Sugar 
or Salt) but very foft and tender^ and ifyou takeabitof it, as big 
pei haps as a M uftard-feed^and lay it on the object plate of a good 
Mkrijcope, you may by opening it with the point of a Needle^ 
difcern many purc^ white and clear appearances in diftindMtm- 
brans,?!! figur'd like the lelFer fort of Birds Eggs, and as clear as a 
Bflies Bladder.. This famefabftance as it hath been juft nowde- 
fcnbed I find in the Ants themfelves, which I take to be the true 
J[^its Eggs -, it being obvious to obfervation^that where ever this 
is urc over'd, they make it their bufinefs to carry it away in their 
mouths to fecure itjandwill after you have fcatter'dit^ lay it on a 
heap again with what fpeed theycan. 
4. 1 obferve they lie in multitudes upon this(if Imay focall it) 
Spawn of theirs^ and after a little time, every one of thefe fmall 
adhei ances is turn d into a little Vermicle,as fmall as a Mire^hardly 
difcerned to ftir; but after a few days more^ you may perceive a 
feeble motion of flexion and extenfion, and they begin, to look, 
yellowifli and hairy, fiiaped very like a fmall Maggotv and fo, 
i eeping that flinpe^grow almofi as big as an Ant, and have every 
one a bbek fpot on them; 
5. Then they get a Film over th^m^ whitifli, and of an Oval 
/iiape^, for which reafon I fuppofe they are commonly call'd Ants 
which yet (to fj?eak properly) they are not. 
6. 1 have, to prevent miftakes^ opened many of thefe vulgarly- 
caird ^/^^xjE^^jJm.ean^theleirerfortXfor there are fome as bigas- 
a. Wheat-com, others lefs then a Rye-corn ) and in fome I find 
onely a M^ggot^^to appearance juft fuch as was deferibed before : 
In others y 1 find a Maggot beginning to put on the lhape of an- 
Ant about the head^with twohttle yellowy fpecks where th^Eyes 
are defign'd : In othcrs, a further progrefs, and furniiht with every ■ 
I hing to compleat the fliape of an Anr, but wholly tranfparent^the 
Eyes oncIy excepted^which are tiien as. black as black Bugles. 
7. But 
