( $odo y 
4* TRbat tlie Bee-grabbs aftually feed on Mites, there bcicg 
no other food for them . 
5. That there are other of Bees or Wafps befides 
thofe by me defcribed 5 which are fometimes found to make 
thefe Mites their food : Dr* J^^^^w having open'd one Husk, 
with one only large Maggot in it. 
6* That there are probably different forts of Mites in thefe 
Haskes, making poffibly different [pedes of Kermes For,fome 
1 have found to hold Carnation- coloured Mites, enclofed io a 
fine white CottoUj the whole Husk flatting from the Twigg, 
flirivelling up^ and ierving only for a Cap or Cover to that 
company of Mites. Other Mites I have feen white^and (which 
is moit ufualj the Husks continuing intire and not coming a- 
way from the Twigg they adhere to^ and but little Cotton at 
the bottom. Thofe of the firfl fort are the white Cob-webbs 
on the Vine, defcribed by Mr. Heol^ Micrographs Obs. 56. 
7* That the fhriveird Gap to be found upo^ the Mites in. 
clofed in Cotton, asalfo the whole Husk it felf, iftakenearly 
in j^pril^ while fofr, will, dried in the Sun, fhrink into the very 
figure of Cochinsil : Whence we guefsj that Cochineil may be a 
foi t of taken thus early and fun-dried^ 
Hitherto this Summers Notes concerning K^;bj/fjr. This ad* 
vantage at leaft we inay have by them j that the account, ta- 
ken from M. Verney by Dr* Creon^ and 
Stt Numb. 20. p. 3^2« publifli't in one of the TranfaBum,'^ is 
made more intelligible; the fmall 4rcsr- 
let powder, there mention^'d) being to be underflood of thofe 
Mitesj and they to be diftinguifh^t from the Bee-grubbs, which 
are changed into the Skipping Fly, that is, the Bee^ (iot kind at 
i^ft) by us defcribed formerlyjl am, e^v. Tork^oflob.^, 1671, 
An Ex^aSofa LenerWritten to the TuhliJher by Thomas 
Platt^/rra Florence, Augufl 6,i6yi, eoncer^ing ,fome Expert^ 
ments^ there made upon Vipers, fnce Monf^ Ghaxas his Reply to 
the Letter written bfSigriGrFrSLncdcoKQdi to Mofijieur Bour- 
ddoi and Monfi^ur lAotm* 
Sir^ 
Ifhafl begin with telling you^ that in aConverfation lafl Win- 
ter^ where I had the good fortune to make one of the num- 
ber, the difcourfe was of an Opinion of l&^DeUChamire^^ho, 
to 
