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Humicola. 
Maritima, 
Fat»!e, 
INSECTS. APTERA. m. Termes. 
Blue-brown ; antennx (hort thick : body cylindrical 
growing thicker towards the tail. 
Inhabits Greenland. Fair. Fn, Groenl. p, 2 iz,n. 179. 
Bluelfh-black with a whitifh abdomen : body nearly 
and growing thicker towards the tail. 
Inhabits Greenland. St/oem, AS. Hafn, 9, p. 582. tab, 5. ' 
111. TERMES. Mouth \\\\\\ 2 liornv 
lip horny, T-olef’t, the divilions 
and acute; feelers 4, equal tilifori^^' 
eyes 2, 
TheTe infers might with equal propriety be arranged undef * , 
Order Neuroptera or llymenoptera ; moll of them having 
2 or 4 wings in the pcrfecl Hate. 
A. Antenna: monlUform. 
Body above brown : thorax with 3 fegments ; wings 
with a tellaceous rib. IVhitC'^^' 
Philof, Tranfafl. FoL pi. part.x. tab. \o. jig. I. 2. 3. 
Degeer. InJ. 7. tab, IJ. fig, I. 2, 3. 
Forjk. Ann. tab, 2^. j'g. A. jj 
The animals of this extraordinary community, far excced'1? 
wifdom and policy the Bee, the Ant or Beaver, arc inhabi‘^^, 
of Eaji India, Africa and South America. They build pl p, 
midal llruftures, 10 or 12 feet in heigth. and divided 
propriate apartments, magazines for provilions, arched cW 
bers and galleries of communication. 7 Tefe arc fo firndf.^l^ 
mented that they eafily bear 4 men to {land upon them; 
the plains ofSi. negal, appear like the villages of the nati'^^ppi 
With luch wonderful dexterity and rapidity, they dellroy' 
lurniture, books, clothes and timber of whatever magt>*|'’ 
leaving a mere thin furfacc ; that in a few hours, a 
beam will be eaten toa mere fliell, not thicker than 
P^'per- _ -I,! 
Larva finall, about 5 of an inch long, 6-footed, pale pj 
roundilh teltaccous head, eyes o, mandibles ihort llrot^S ^ 
toothed, antenna: as long as tiie thorax and ovate abdonie'’' 
'I hefe :;n)y arc the labourers, who fuild the (truilurcs, 
provifiions for the males ami fem«les,and take care ot the^2° 
they arc the moll numerous. .q, 
Ta/>rt larger, about ~ an inch long, with a very large 
billed tellaceous head; eyes o j mandibles projetUng. 
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