Part I 
Of ItfeUs. 
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CHAP. III. 
OF CREEPING INSECTS. 
THe SMALLEST ANT or EMMET. When well 
grown, they are then hardly bigger than a good big 
Flea. In Barbados, faith Ligon, there is a larg fort of Ants, 
that build their Nefts , with Clay and Lome, againft a 
Wall or a Tree, as big as Bee-Hives, and divided into 
fcveral Cells, (a) Of the Ingenuity of this Infecl, fee divers f *) 
Relations in the fame Author, ib) They are exceeding nu~ f^j^ 
merous throughout all India. So that they are forced to fet 
the feet of their Cupboards and Chefts in Citterns of Water 
to preferve their Cloaths and Victuals (c) from them. ( c ) Linchot. 
Of their Kinds, and Generation $ as alfo their ufe for p* 8o - 
feeding of Pbeafants and Partridges, fee fome Obfervations 
in the Phil. Tranf. (d) Communicated by Dr. Edmund (d)N. 23. 
King. Of their Nature, fome others in the fame Tranfaff. 
(e) Communicated by Mr. Ray from Dr. Hulfe and ^ N * 6 ^ 
Mr. Fijher. The former obferving, amongft other parti- 
culars, That the Liquor which they fometimes let fall from 
their Mouths, droping upon the blew Flowers of Cichory, 
immediately gives them a large red ftain 5 and fuppofeth, 
it would produce the like in other blew Flowers. The latter, 
That not only the Juyce, but alfo the Diftill'd Water or 
Spirit of this fafeft will produce the fame effect, &c 
Amongft which , Mr. Ray mixeth fome Notes of his 
own. 
The Liquor of Ants is commended by Schroder (f ) for W mu 
a moft excellent Ophthalmic^. 
The BAHAMA-SPIDER. It is of the Tarantula kind, 
and may be called Phalangium maximum Indicum 3 being 
the biggeft of all the Species,fc. two inches long. Defcnbed 
by Wormius, and others. He hath fix Eyes, not fo big as 
the fmalleft Pins head. They ftand not in a circle, as repre- 
fented by Laet, Wormius, Pifo, and Olearius, but two and 
two on each fide , and two betwixt them tranfyerfly, 
thus He hath two ftrong black fhining Teeth, like 
crooked Claws , (landing parallel, and with their points 
downward, 
