jfrcto=(!Hnglantis Parities. 
79 
Of Insects. ' 
A Btig. 
Here is a certain kind of Buz like a Beetle, but of a 
X glittering brafs colour, with four ftrong Tinfel 
Wings; their Bodies are full of Corruption or white 
Matter like a Maggot; being dead, and kept awhile, they 
will ftench odioufly; they beat the Humming Birds from 
the Flowers. 
The Wafps in this Countrey are pied, black and white, 
breed in Hives made like a great Pine Apple, their 
entrance is at the lower end, the whole Hive is of an Afh 
Colour, but of what matter its made no man knows; 
wax it is not, neither will it melt nor fry, but will take 
fire fuddenly like Tinder: this they fatten to a Bow, or 
build it round about a low Buffi, a Foot from the 
ground. 
The flying Gloworm, flying in dark Summer Nights 
like fparks of Fire in great number; they are common 
liewife, in Palejlina. 
1 The author continues his entomological observations, in his Voyages, p. 115 ; 
and the account is fuller than Wood's; Nevj- England's Prospect, chap. xi. 
[40] The Wafp. 
The flying Gloworm. 
