and to lay all their Eggs a time > What fecni to breed 
every Summer month,at leafl: to have many (ubordinate 
broods; apd whether the Eggs be accordingly diftin- 
giiitbable in feveral Matrices or Cells in the body of the 
Femah > Xim h 
7. Whether Spiders do not take their form and per- 
feftion in the Egg, and are not thence hatched neceffa' 
rily at a ftated and fet time, that is, after a certain num^ 
ber of d^ysj, as^ i^ compleat Animals of its own kind h 
and whether the prefence of the Femal be necelTary in 
order to the hatching the Eggs , at leaft for three days, 
as the Ancienjt^s feem to ?fBrm ? 
g.Whether the perfeftly-roundeggs of Spiders ought 
to be called and efteemed Worms , as >/- 
^^^^^jflj.'jlil'^; riftotle and Fliny will have them, that is, in 
Srvammerdams phrafc and do(9^rine, Whe- 
ther they be Tuppets in the egg , and undergo all altera- 
tions accordingly , before they be thence hatched 
jperfe<a Spiders? 
9* What diflPerent colours obfervable in the Eggs of 
Spiders, as well of pulps as fliell5afS white,yellow,orange, 
purple 3 greenifli? and what refped:ive tincftures they 
will give, Of be ixjafJe to ftrike with the feveral familiej 
of Salts? 
iG.Whethetthere be not Eggs of fome forts of Spiders, 
which the Worms of certain flender Wafps (the kind in 
general being called by Mouffet Mufc£ trL 
ta,^^:^f' J) delight to feed on? and whether 
the Fable of Fefpa Ichneumones, told us by 
the Ancients, be not to be made out by the fame Ol> 
fervation, of thefe Wafp-worms feeding on the Egg?, 
and perfe<3:ed into Wafps in the very webs of Spiders ? 
11. After what manner do Spiders feed $ whether in 
fucking they devour not alfo part of their prey ? How 
long can they Mvt without food, fince they flore up no- 
thing againft Winter? 
1 2, Whether Spiders feed only of their own kind of 
Creatures, 
