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The BeeSj I found in your box (which are the only onts 
I have yet feen) vvere of a fhorter and thicker fhape , 
than the common Hony-bee , more hairy, &c. But ihe 
fureft mark to dKlinguifh them, is, that the forcipes or 
teeth of thefe are bigger, broader, and ftronger 5 in 
fbape like thofe of a Wafp or Hornet , from which (he nlfo 
fufficiently differs in having a tongue like a Bee, which ihcy. 
want. 
They made their way out along the channel thorough 
allthe intermediate cartrages, a.r>d not thorough. the folid 
v/ood. Of the corruption of th€ matter within the Gafcs, 
when the Bee- maggots or r^A/z^A^F happen to mifcarry^ are 
bred little Hexapodj^\\i\\\c\\ produce Beetles 3 too Maggots, 
which produce Flyes 5 three M\tts,&c, 
From what hath been obferved concerning this Bee 5 
and by a great many more parallel Inftances ^ we may an- 
fwer the ^i^re of fome, that have written of Be^ s, whe- 
ther it be the Old Bee,or the Bee-maggotjthat covers the 
Cells before the Change ? And fay, that it is the Maggot, 
and n£>t the Old one. For, here the Old Bee, when (he 
hath left provifion enough5with an Egge clofes up the Car- 
trage 5 and hath no more to do ; The Maggot a great while 
after making th^theca^ which is analogous to the cover of 
the Cells. 
In Table 2 ^Figure IL reprefents the Leaf, out of 
which a long piece,as Figure UK aed a round piece, as Fi- 
gure IV, were bitten. Figure V. (hews the Cartrage it 
felf J and Figure VI* the theca. 
