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2. Whether the large and foft balls of the Oak are not ia 
like manner the bud and acorn with all the parts of a fprooc- 
ing branchy thus monftroufly perverted from the firft dcfiga 
or nature > 
3^ Upon what parts or juices the lchnsumomwotm% ^ fup^ 
pofed tobethmft into Caterpillars and other Maggots^ can 
be thought to feed : And whether there be not a(9:ualiy Eggs 
in Caterpillars and Maggots (as ther»3 are to be obferved in 
their refpeftive Chryfalis's) fufficient to ferve them for food ? 
Gonc'eroing the name fxf^'^^ altlieugh I could willingly 
refer you to Mr. l{ay^ who is another Hefychius^ yet for pre- 
fentfatisfa(9:tonI(hall traofcribe what the Excellent Critique 
G* VoJJim faith (c* 1 6Je Inimicitia • ) Ichneumon (i.e. Mm Pba^ 
raonps Jive Mgyptiacus) Crocodili (3 Jf^idis Gva indagaty unde illi 
Ichneumonis nomen^ quaji dicas Indagatorem (e^Tn • ) 
J^per t a utriufque ova content ut efi afud Oppianumin ^^deVe- 
natione ' Ntcander tamepi ait^ eum Afpidis ova humi niandare. 
Now a like Obfervation of certain Infedts of the Wafp- 
kind, made no doubt by feme of the Antients,occafioncd the 
application of that name to Wafps as well as to that ^Egyptian 
Moufe^ Yet cannot I remember to have met with in any of 
the Andents of more than one text concerning thofe Wafps 5 
vi^. JriflotJe Hifl.AmmJ,$,c,70, which Plmy (vid. liba fx*2i.) 
hath rcndredj in a manner verbatim^ thus ; Fefp^^ qu(e Ichneu^ 
inonQs vocantur (funt autem mitwres quam aim) mum genus ex 
araneis perimunt^ phalangium appellatum^ ^ in nidos fuos ferunt » 
deinde illinunt^ ^ exiis^ incubando^ fuum gems procreant. 
How far this relation is true j and agreeable to modern 
Obfervations, we (hall have perhaps occafion to difcourfeof 
elfe-wherej Our defign here is only to tell yoUg chat we have 
enough to make us believe, that thofe very InfedtSj we have 
been treating of, are , for kind , the Ichneumons of the 
Antients^ 
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