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to be, to catch hold of the Female's Podex , and to 
direCt and afiift the Penetration of the Penh in 
coitu • 
As for the Parts of Generation in the Queen , or 
Female-Wafps , nothing was to be feen fo remarkable 
as in the Male • but thofe Parts are very like what 
we fee in the common Labouring-Waffs : Indeed, with 
the moft accurate Obfervations I could make with my 
Microfcopes, I could not perceive any Difference at 
all. For which Reafon I fuppofe it is that moft of the 
Writers upon Wafps and Bees , have been very con- 
fufed and wavering about the Sexes of thefe two 
Tribes of InfeCts. It would be endlefs to cite the 
Authors and their Opinions, efpecially concerning 
the Bee-Tribe . I think Swammerdam (^) (who as he 
was one of the firft that rejected Equivocal Genera- 
tion, fo was one of the moft judicious Writers of In- 
fers) that his Opinion, I fay, is the moft juft, vise. 
iThat of Bees , there are three Sorts, viz . i. Rex, 
ant verius Regina, fiquidem fequioris fexiis efi . 2. Fu- 
ci, qni Mafculi proprie fnnt. 3. Apes Operaris, 
quartan Sexum dijlinguere non pojfumus , cum in Us 
nec Mafculas nec Feeminas partes obfervemns : qua 
perbelle dijlinguntur in Fucis fen Regibus, & Reginis, 
qua tralatitio err ore Reges folent faint ari. In Reginis 
certe invenimus Ovarium a pud incomp arabilem ilium 
Anatomwn Joh. van Horne, 
As for what is related by Arijlotle , Pliny, Virgil , 
or any other ancient Authors, or by our more nu- 
merous Moderns, concerning the Production of Wafps 
out of Horfes , or Bees out of Oxen ox young Bullocks * 
as alfo of their Polity , their Emperours , Kings , Dukes , 
and common SubjeBs , their exact difeipline and fuflice y 
Vol. XXXIiJ. K their 
(a) Swam. Hift. Infeft. />. 91. 
