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male Wafp , the other two of a letter fort. This more 
excited my Curiofity. And foon after, I found 8 or 
io Wafps clofely hanging together, and divers other 
fuch like Parcels. In the midft of all which was 
conftantly a Queen-Wafp, and only onej the reft 
being always of a different Sort from either the 
Queen or the common Wafps ^ which gave me a Su- 
fpicion of their being Male and Female. And there- 
fore examining another Company of them with grea- 
ter Stri&nefs, I found the Qiieen-Wafp , in coitu , 
with one of the other Wafps, fo clofely joined Tail 
to Tail, that it was fome Time before they were 
parted. 
After this I caught all the Wafps I could, on the 
top of our Chapel, but could not fee one of the com- 
mon labouring Wafps among them *, but all were for 
the moft part Male Wafps , with now and then a 
Queen , or Female , among them, and (he generally 
in coitu . 
And now from this Hiftory of my Obfervation, it 
• appears. That there are three forts of Wafps j The 
Queens , or Females ^ the Kings , or Males ^ and the 
common Labouring-Wafps j each of them very di- 
ftinft. 
The Queen , or Female-Wafp (by many called the 
King-Wafp) is much longer in the Body, and larger 
than any other Wafp. 
The Male Wafps are letter than the Queens , but as 
much longer and larger than the common W afps^s the 
Queen is longer and larger than thefe. Thefe Males 4 
alfo have no Stings, which the Queens and common 
Wafps all have. And thefe are thofe which Moufet 
faith Authors call and take to be Females , 
although he is of another Opinion, imagining all 
Wafps to have Stings ^ upon his examining a Wafp’s 
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