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same Torpefs^ I agree with Gefner^ that k was fo called^ qua^ 
Torcus Pifcisy moft nations calling this fifli Porcus Marinus^ or 
theSea-fwine. Indeed it refembles a Swine in many particu- 
lars, as the fat, the ftrength of the fnour, &c* 
^I^/fere?f Francis Willoughby £}^^/V^, o/Aiigufl: 24» \6yil 
Corita'inrng form confiderable Olfervattjns about that kj^id of 
iVafps ^ eall d Vefp^ Ichneumones 5 efpecially their [everal 
ways of Breeding, and among them^ that odd rvay of laying their 
Eggs in the Bodies of Caterpillars^ (3c^ 
4^ S Iremembcrj M.L//?frj opinion is, that ihtMufae Ich* 
t\ neumonesV^iy their Eggs io the bodies of Caterpillars ^ 
which I took upon as very ingenious and trne^ and muft fub- 
(cribe to it, though I cannv)t yet sbfi:>!ure'y demonftrate ic, v.s 
I hoped Uhou^u have done before this. Thtic Ichneumones 
have all four wings, Jnte?m<e like Bees 5 their body hanging 
to their breaft by a flender ligameiit^ as in Wdfps; moitj if 
noc al!, have ftiogs, and are made of a maggot, that fpuis her 
felt a Iheca before fhe turns into a iS/)'Z«/?j^<^* There is great 
variety of them. Some breed^ as Bees do, laying an Fgg, 
which produceth a maggot, which they feed till it comes 10 
its full growth: Others, as we guefs, thruft in their Eggs iuto 
plants, the bodies of living cacerpillars, miggots, &c. For, 
icis very furprizing to obferve^that a great Carerpillarjinftead 
of being changed into a Butter-fly (according to the ofual 
coprfe of nature ; ) Ihould produce fometimes onejfomctinies 
two or three, and fometimes a whole fwarm of Ichneumones^, I 
have obferved this Anomalous produftion in a gfeac maiiy 
forts of CaterpiliarSjborh hairyjand fmooth^ in fevers! forrs 
of maggots, and, which is moft ftrange, in one Water infecS, 
When there come many of thefe Ichneumon maggots out of 
the bodv of the fame Caterpillar, they weave a!i their Thecas 
together into one buoch, which is fometimes round with web 
aboat icjuft like a bag of fpiders Eggs s but 1 dare venture to 
anfwer MX?j^^rV loth ^(vre pag*2i72» of the Phil.Tranf* ne- 
gatively, thatnoneof them feed upon fpiders Eggs, but icis 
the limilitade of thofe thecas^ conglobated together, to 
S s s the 
