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and about the bign^rs ot a Goofe Egg. The other h 
much larger and more round 5 the Wafps alfoare fome- 
what bigger. A Third fort I found in (liape and colour 
like our common Englifi Waj^y vvhofe lictle Neft was 
half round (like the Bell ot a Clock) fixt under the co- 
vert of a rotten Logg. Th^k 'NeJIs in colour refemble 
brown paper, only the laft tends to a Brimfiom colour. 
Here are others brown with purple wings, and fome with 
ftreaks of yellow under their bellies. Thefe make their 
Combs of the lame matter the former do, but naked 
without any cover, and therefore commonly choo[e 
the (helter of a houfe, &c. thol have feen them (tick- 
ing in a BuJ/j : Here are alfo fbme Pkilamt ones with pur- 
ple wings, and other large ones black and ydlom^ with a 
Mouth like a Br ieze or St out ^ and one Red Black, 
without wings, whole fting is very long. Thh lajl /V a 
very fingular Wafp^ and the only one I have as yet feeti 
mthont Wtngs^ it rpas firjl gi ven me by Mr James Marfhal, 
it^ho had it from Yit^nia, f/nce which I have received it from 
Carolina, amongji pveral di/^er curious Infedts, my ki^d 
Friend Mr Edmund Bohun ivas f leafed to fend me from 
thence, I alfo remember to have fern it amongfl thofe our 
^ery ingenious Friendy Dr David Krieg, Fellovp of - this 
Society^ made whilft in Maryland. I think it may not 
improperly be called Vef^a Virginiana impennis^ P9 \^Wo 
rubroq'^y mixta. 
Bombylns Teredo. Thefe Bees eat into Timber^ and 
there make their Hefls. This was in the Joyce of a Honft 
fo firm and- found, that it was very hard entring with a 
Peircer, the hole was but juft big enough for the Bee^ to 
creep in at, and went right up, about 2 inches in the 
' Wood, and then in a tranfverfe line at leaft half a foot 
on each fide, which feem'd to me (as I probed it with a 
k nitting Needle J to be twice as wide as the entranGe,how 
iB^fcees belonged to it I cannot tell,3 there was in, and 
l|^a||Lone or two about the door* 
