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Of InfeBs, 
P A R T I 
SECT. VII. 
OF INSECTS. 
CHAP. I. 
Of InfeBs with Nafyd-IVings. 
THe Bigger HUMBLE-BEE. Bombylius major. Firft, 
With a broad-Belly, colour'd with Afhen, White, and 
Brown. 
Another, with a Broad-Belly, Yellow and Citrine. 
A Third , with a Long Tawny-Belly , and Brown 
Wings. 
The Middle HUMBLE-BEE, with a Scarlet Breaft, and 
Wings fpoted with white and brown. 
The Leffer HUMBLE-BEE, painted with Citrine and 
Iron-colour. 
A WILD-BEE, \> ith her Follicle or Bag, near the big- 
nefs of a Wrens-Egg. 
Another fort of WILD-BEE, with their BAGS. They 
are about I an inch long, of a Cylindrical Figure, very thin 
and tranfparent, like the inner Coats of the Eye. Admira- 
bly placed, for warmth and fafety 3 fc. length- ways, one 
after another, in the middle of the Pith of an old 
Elder-Branch , with a thin boundary betwixt each Bag. 
The little Bees are fomewhat thicker than the Flying- 
Ant 5 and their Bellies marked with four or five white 
Rings. 
Another fort of WILD-BEE, which breeds in the flocks , 
of old Willows. Curious to obferve. They firft bore a 
Canale in the Stock, which, for more warmth, they furnifh 
afterwards with Hangings, made of Rofe-Leaves, fo rowled 
up, as to be contiguous round about to the fides of the 
Canale: And to finilh their Work, divide the whole in to 
feveral Rooms or Nefts, with round pieces of the fame 
leaves. Hereof fee in the Philof. Tranf. (a) the Obfer- 
vations 
