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then they boil them a good while in water, after- 
wards flew them with butter, and make a fort of 
fricaffee ; which, he fays, has no bad fade, he 
having tailed them. I further enquired, whether 
the Loculls of the Arabians were different from 
thofe in Egypt? He anfwered, No; and faid he 
had feen none in Arabia, but thofe he had feen 
in Egypt, of larger and fmaller kinds ; that they 
take little and big, without diftin&ion, for this ufe; 
and that at certain feafons of the year, tliefe in- 
fers are as common in Arabia, as they are fcarce in 
Egypt, at this time; where they, at lead, never oc- 
casion a plague to the country, as they do in other 
places. 
1 04. Sphinx Atropos c . 
This is fometimes found in the houfes of Cairo. 
I05. Phalmna (Ficus) minima gregaria Candida. 
The Moth of the Fig-tree. 
I found this between Acra and Tyre, fitting on 
the Fig-trees; near the road which Alexander 
Slade for the paffage of his army. 
106. Phakena parva atra fubtus ferruginea. 
This I found on the mountain of Precipitation, 
n ear Nazareth. 
107. Phalcena amygdali fru&us. 
It is odd, that Almonds cherilh a Moth, when 
other fruits nourilh a Denneftes, Tenthredo, or 
hune other infect. 
108. Phalsena mori d . The Silk Worm. 
c Lin. Syft. Nat P. 490. N. S. d P. 499. N. iS. 
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