( 5 6 ) I 
, Parts are fo dried up, or eaten with Mites, that they 
cannot be drawn ’till the Return of VV afp time. 
For the Difcovery of thefe Parts, if the Alvus be 
preiled, an Horny or Shelllike Part will be thruft 
out, of a fliining black Colour, which con fids of two 
Parts like Shells, fomewhat refembling the Cajlagnets 
ufed in Dancing \ at the extreme Part of each of 
which grows an Hock, fomewhat like thofe of the 
Earwig’s Tail, but much Idler j in the Middle, be- 
tween thefe Hooks, appear three Parts , the mid- 
diemolt of which is a fluff brown Tube , very curioully 
made, , with the Fore-part like a Spoon or Lad e, and 
the other End (within the Body) is neatly branched 
and braced to each Side within the two Shells I fpake 
of. A little above which Branching, is a (pu^ct-nov or 
Swelling , like that of a Dog’s Fizzle, and perhaps 
ferves for the fame Ufe, if this i ube is (as i ima- 
gine it is) the Penis of the Wafp. 
On each Side this Penis , lies a RifF Part (in Num- 
ber two) branched at the Top with fomewhat like 
TIairs, giving them the Refemblance of Brujhes . At 
the Bottom of which are two curious black Cells , with 
an Opening on one Side like that of the Concha Veneris , 
with fmall whitidi Hairs growing on one Edge thereof. 
What the Ufe of thefe two BruAi-like Members may 
be, I know not, unlefs it be to flrengthen and fup- 
port, or dired the Penis in coitu , or provoke therein. 
Behind all thefe Parts, which l have defcribed, 
more within the Body lies a long contorted white 
Vejfel ^ which at firft 1 . took to be the real Penis t pe- 
netrating the Ladle-like Tube I fpake of. But upon 
farther Examination, I rather take it to be the Sper- 
matick Vejfel . 
As to the Ufe of the two little Hooks I mention’d 
at the End of the e l)ropygium , or Shells , I take them 
