• 1*454 Mr. smeathman’s Account of 
and, according to the mode we have adopted from time'imme- 
morial in fpeaking of Ants and Bees, the queen. 
Thefe communities confift of one male and one female (who 
are generally the common parents of the whole, or greater part, 
of the reft), and of three orders of infe&s, apparently of very 
different fpecies, but really the fame, which together compofe 
great commonwealths, or rather monarchies, if I may be al- 
lowed the term. 
The great LiNNmrs, having feen or heard of but two of 
thefe orders, has clafled the genus erroneoufly ; for he has placed 
it among the Apt era, or infers without wings ; whereas the 
chief order, that is to fay, the infedt in its perfect ftate, 
having four wings without any fting, it belongs to the 
Neuroptera ; in which clafs it will conftitute a new genus of 
many fpecies 
The different fpecies of this genus refemble each other in 
for lit, in their manner of living, and in their good and bad 
qualities.: but differ as much as birds in the manner of build- 
ing their habitations or nefts, and in the choice of the mate- 
rials of which they compofe them. 
There are fome fpecies which build upon the furface of the 
ground, or part above and part beneath, and one or two fpecies, 
perhaps more, that build on the dcms or branches .of. trees., 
fbmetimes aloft at a vaft height. 
• (3) I have no doubt, from the account and ‘figures given of the European 
Termes Pulfatorius, or Death’ Watdh, by the illuftrious baron de geer, in his 
feventh volume of Memoir es pour fenv'ir a T Hiftoirc des Jnfctles , that in their 
perfed ftate they have wings, and fwarm or emigrate, and live in a manner analo- 
gous to thofe of hot climates.; for they feem to have quite the external form- of 
the exotic Termes, that is to fay, of the “firft and third order, de seer, Me- 
tom. VII, p. 45. pi. IV. fig. 1, 2, 3, & -4. 
Of 
