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take fome of the Forefaid liitle Creaturs, and having 
caught them jit lifts them up, left they fhouldftick or 
adhere to any thing, and fucks them (b lifted up,untill 
nothing remaine but a every thin Skin Wings and Feet. 
Alfo thefe Worms feem to love Ants^ for they are 
often with them, but hurt them not. 
It began to Change, the 14#^. of under the Figure 
of an Egg : and the 2 ij?, of the fame Month, it received 
the forme of a very long Fljf. 
Thif tf<H A By-birth, and an Ichneumon- Wa(p j the 
true birth Jhould have been a Fly, likf the laji defers* 
bed. 
G, P. 1. 
Number. 135. 
lab. 
There are many of theft Worms to be found upon 
the leaves* of the Elder for they are bred of the 
seed which the Fly their Mother layes upon them , in 
the Month of June, and Hatched by the heat of the 
Sun. 
They well know by inftind ( which is admirable ) 
that there will be food ready, as fton as their Young 
ones are Hatched, this inftinft is Analagous to reafons 
and comes near jt : So that there they lay their Eggs, 
where they know the little Brood, as foon as Hatched, 
will find meat , for the Ants do depofe a ftrtain fat 
and fecund humour, upon the extreme boughs of the 
Elder, Apple^ Cherry Pare- tree-, and upon the leaves of 
the Curran-bufl}, from which little Creaturs of a Green, 
and fbmtimes [of a Black,, colour, are bred 3 from 
