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IV. Some Oljervations concerning IvScdi^ made by 
Afr John Baniftcr /^ Virginia, AD. 16^0, 
with Remark^ on them by Mr James Pctivcr, 
Apothecary and Bellow of the Royal Society. 
VEfp£ Ichmumones. Here are divers kinds, long 
and flender v/afted all, thefe make their Nefts 
of Dirt, and arc therefore called Dirt Wdfps. Some of 
them make their Nefts contiguous to one another, each 
adjoyning Cavity having in it 2 or more partitions : 
Others build them in clamps one upon another 5 they 
fix ( hem againft a Wall or Ceiling of an houfe, or any 
where where dry. There is not above 2 Wajps belong- 
ing to one of thefe Vefpar/s, for when they have made, 
one Cell, and put into it 6 or 8 live Spiders, theyclofe 
it up to work upon another, leaving them to brood upon 
their young, fomethirig like that of Arifoik m tiis Hift. 
AnimaL Lib. i. cap. 20. 
The young ones of thefe are cafed over with a thin 
tranfparent horny skin of an Amber colour^ thofeofthe 
other are contained in a brown cafe, with a certain num- 
ber of regular protuberances at one end thereof, fome 
again lye in brown ones that 2iX^ fmoothj and fome (if 1 
miftake not) naked. I have not had leifure this year to 
inquire fo far into their generation, production, &c. as I 
would, vid.MarU Lijier HiJl-AninfJ, cap. J.Z/^r. de Ara- 
mis in genere. 
W.e have feveral other coloured Waj^s. 
Two black and white,thu build their Ne{is on thefmaU 
branches oiJrees : Of the lefferkind ofNeft,there is a very 
good Figure mADefcription in ?ifo his Nat. Hifl. ol J^df e 
lib. 5. cap. 12. p. 287« only as it feems to ftand ereS(,l k 
jfiiould have been imdQ pendulous : This is of an oval form, 
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