Of Infects, 
Part I. 
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SECT. VII. 
OF INSECTS, 
CHAP. I. 
Of Infects with Na^ed-Wings. 
T He Bigger HUMBLE-BEE. Bombyliws major. Fird, 
With a broad-Belly, colour’d with Afhen, White, and 
Brown. 
Another, witli a Broad-Belly, Yellow and Citrine. 
A Third, with a Long Tawny-Belly, and Brown 
Wings. 
The Middle HUMBLE-BEE, with a Scarlet Bread, and 
Wings fpoted with white and brown. 
The LeiTer HUMBLE-BEE, painted with Citrine and 
Iron-colour. 
A WILD-BEE, with her Follicle or Bag, near the big- 
nefs of a Wrens-Egg. 
Another fort of WILD-BEE, with their BAGS. They 
are about' an inch long, of a Cylindrical Figure, very thin 
and tranfparent, like the inner Coats of the Eye. Admira¬ 
bly placed, for warmth and fafety 3 fc. length-ways, one 
after another, in the middle of the Pith of an old 
Elder-Branch , with a thin boundary betwixt eacli Bag. 
The little Bees are fomewhat thicker than the Flying- 
Ant 3 and their Bellies marked with four or five white 
Rings. 
Another fort of WILD-BEE, which breeds in the flocks 
of old Willows. Curious to obferve. They firft bore a 
Canale in the Stock, which, for more warmth, they f urnifh 
afterwards with Hangings, made of Rofe-Leaves , fo fowled 
up, as to be contiguous round about to the Tides of the 
Canale. And to finifh their Work, divide the whole, in to 
feveral Rooms or Neds, with round pieces of the fame 
f Num- leaves. Hereof fee in the Philof. Tranf. (a) the Obfer- 
vations 
