ry diem dead oat of the- Field > from their Bank. But if you put 
Slack Ants into a Bank of .the Jtafj the Black feem to be fofen- 
£ble of the .ftrangenefs of the place they are in* that there they 
will not meddle with the Red, but as if they were frighted, and 
concerned for nothing but felf-prefervation, run away. 
? . U pon opening of thefe Banks, I obferve firft a white [uhftance, 
which to the bare eye looks like the fcatterings of fine white Su- 
gar or Salt, but very foft and tender 5 and it you take a bit of it, 
as big perhaps as aMuftard-feed, and lay iron the Objed-plateof 
a good Mtcrofcope , you may by opening it with the point of a 
Needle , difcern many pure, white and clear appearances in di- 
flind Membrans, all figur’d like theleffer fort of Birds Eggs, and 
as clear as a Fifties Bladder. This fame fubftance as it hath been, 
juh now defcribed, I finde in the Ants themfelves, which I take 
to be the true Ants. Eggs ; it being obvious to- observation, that, 
where ever this is uncover^, they make it their bufinefs to carry it 
away in their mouths to fecure it, and will after you have fcatter’d 
it, lay it on a heap again with what fpeed they can. 
4. I obferve they lie in multitudes upon this ( if I may fo call 
it) Spawn of theirs 5 and after a little time, every one of thefe 
fmall adherances is turn’d into a little Vermicle,. as fmall as a Mite, 
hardly difcerned to ftir 5 but after a few days more, you may per- 
ceive a feeble motion of flexion and extcnfion, and they begin to 
look yellowifh and hairy, fhapcd very like a fmall Maggot ^ and 
fo, keeping that lhape, grow almoft as big as an Ant , and have 
every one a black fpot on them. 
5. Then they ge t a ,F/ 7 ^over them, whitiih, and of an Oval 
ihape , for which reafon I fuppofe they are commonly call’d . 
Ants EggS) which yet ( to fpeak properly) they are not. 
6 . I have, to prevent miftakes, opened many of thefe vulgarly 
call’d Ants Eggs ^ I mean, the leffer fort* (for there arefome as 
big as a Wheat- corn, others lefs then a Rye-corn ) and in /me I 
finde onely a Maggot, to appearance juft fuch as was defcribed be- 
fore : In others , I finde a Maggot beginning to puton thefhape of 
an Ant about the head, with two little yellowy fpecks where The 
Eyes are defign’d : In others, a furchepprogrefs, and furniiht with 
every thing to com pleat thefhape of an Ant, but wholly tranfpa- 
rent, the Eyes onely excepted, which are then as black as black. 
Bugles,. ' 7. But 
