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of a dark asfh colour ^ fliap'd not unlike common 
Mites s in others j I find feeming excrements of feme 
fmall Infed: , with the decayed parts of the dead In- 
fed; 5 in others 5 white Maggots, which you fa w« Some 
cf thele Maggots I took out of their Theca. or bagg , 
and put them in warm places io the Sun 5 and ihey 
"thereupon grew fomething bigger^ but changed not (hape 
nor colour j but|d;^ed. The reft I kept clofe in a box 
till the eighth of July prefent : then I took one of them 
out of the wood , and open d the leaves , and felt fome- 
thing ftir^ hearing al(b an humming noife like that of a 
Bee 5 and as foon as I had open'd the Theca 3 a peTfeft 
See did fly out againft my window, as ftrongly as a com- 
mon Bee out of an Hive ^ having much of the co» 
lour and bigneflTe of thoie when they are new Fly- 
ers. Then being pleafed at the fight^ I took five more 
( all I had left ) and put them in a Box into my Pock- 
ec 5 to fhew them the Lord Brouncker ^ before they 
were taken out , or had eaten their way out 5 but 
his Lordfliip hot being at home 5 1 brought them back 
again , and they being difturbed , they all eat them* 
felves out 5 and coming home ^ they were all creep- 
ing about ray Box 5 and are fince dead there , and 
are thefe,! here prefent to your View. They have all 
(tings as other Bees have. I had fome thoughts at firft 
4ight 5 by the yellowifh Circles under their Bellies^ that 
they might be a fort of Waips 5 but now am of opinio% 
that they are commoni! Bees* 
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