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to no particular Laws but can, by a furprifing Va- 
riety, accomplifh the fame Ends. 
In the VIEh Chap . he proceeds to treat of the 
Transformation of the feveral Aurelias to Flies and 
common Ants, with a Defcription of their Structure* 
Duration, and other Curiolities relating to the Change; 
But the juft Progrefs of Ants -Eggs, V ermicles, Nymphs, 
&c. cannot, he fays, be precifely ftated; becaufe 
they will not arrive at Maturity under Glaffes, as 
Swammerdam , before him, had obferved. 
As foon as the Ant- Nymphs, furrounded with a 
Tifliie, are tending to Life, he fays, the Workers 
give them Air, by an Aperture in the Head-Part of 
the Covering 5 which Aperture they gradually en- 
large 5 and, after a Day or two, take out the Young, 
and expofe it to the freer Accefs of the Sun-beams, 
which are of great Force in promoting its Maturity. 
Our Author obferves, that Philofophers have ufu- 
ally confounded the two different Sorts of Ant Flies, 
the large and fmall, looking upon them all under 
the Chara&er of Males 5 tho* there be fo wide and 
manifcft a Variance in the Colour, Size, that 
the naked Eye may eafily diftinguifh it. —On the con- 
trary, therefore, he prefumes they are of different 
Sexes: The fmall ones he takes to be Males, and the 
large Females; and thinks it highly probable, that 
fome of thefe Females, afterwards, give Birth to 
new Colonies, and intitle themfelves to the Dignity 
of Queens; there being, as he fays, many ftrong Ex- 
perimental Rcafons to fupport fo uncommon a Cu~ 
riofity ; which he alfo recites, and anfwers the chief 
Objc&ion againft it, taken from the Number of thefe 
Ant-Flies : The principal Thing of which his Anfwcr 
confifts 
