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Of the Sting and Scraper of a Bee. 
lively; each eye has a violet blue pupil, 1 clear, and 
admirably furrounded by a pale yellow circle. 
The wandering or hunting fpider, who fpins no web, 
but runs and leaps by fits, has two tufts of feathers 
fixt to its fore paws, which, together with the great va¬ 
riety of colouring all over this animal, affords a beau¬ 
tiful and delightful profpeft for the microfcope. 
There is a red mite or loufe often found feeding upon 
fpiders, in fhape much like a tortoife, u with a little 
head, and fix long but finall legs; and about the legs of 
the field-fpider they cling exceeding clafe whilft the ani¬ 
mal is alive, but when dead they all fall off and creep 
away. 
Mr. Bon hath made feveral pair of ftocklngs and 
gloves, from a filk x wound off from the egg bags of 
Ihort legged fpiders. 
Of the fling and feraper of a bee* 
A S the contrivance and ftru&ure of the flings of moll 
infefts are nearly alike, they will be fufficiently 
underftood by a defeription of that of a bee, as difeovered 
by the microfcope. 
A bee’s fling is a horny fheath or fcabbard, that in¬ 
cludes two bearded darts j this fheath ends in a point, 
near the extremity whereof a flit opens, through which 
at the time of flinging, two bearded darts are protruded 
beyond the end of the fheath, one whereof being a little 
longer than the other, fixes its beard firft, but tfie other 
immediately after ; they penetrate alternately deeper and 
. deeper, taking hold of the flefh with their hooks till the 
whole 
4 Power’s Micro. Obf. p, 13. « Power’s Micro. 0 £f. p. so 
* PhU. Tranf. No. 325. “ 
