ART 
I. 
Of Infers 
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CHAP. III. 
OF CREEPING INSECTS. 
T He SMALLEST ANT or EMMET. When well 
grown, they are then hardly bigger than a good big 
Flea. In Barbados , faith Ligon , there is a larg fort of Ants, 
that build their Ncfts, with Clay and Lome, again!! a 
Wall or a Tree, as big as Bee-Hives , and divided into 
feveral Cells, (a) Of the Ingenuity of this Infeli, fee divers O ) Hig. 
Relations in the fame Author, (b) They are exceeding nu- 
merous throughout all India. So that they are forced to fet 
the feet of their Cupboards and Cherts in Cifterns of Water 
to preferve their Cloaths and Victuals (c) from them. w Lillchot . 
Of their Kinds, and Generation ; as alfo their ufe for p- 8o - 
feeding of Pheafants and Partridges , fee fome Obfervations 
in the Phil. Tranf. (d) Communicated by Dr. Edmund MN. 23. 
King. Of their Nature, fome others in the fame Tranf all. 
(e) Communicated by Mr. Ray from Dr. Hulfe and w Ni d 4 - 
Mr. Fijher. The former obfervmg, amongft other parti¬ 
culars, That the Liquor which they fometimes Jet fall from 
their Mouths, droping upon the blew Flowers of Cichor.y , 
immediately gives them a large red ftain; and fuppofeth, 
it would produce the like 111 other blew Flowers. The latter. 
That not only the Juyce, but alfo the Dilfill'd Water or 
Spirit of this Infett will produce the fame effect, &c. 
Amongft which, Mr. Ray mixeth fome Notes of his 
own. 
The Liquor of Ants is commended by Schroder (f) for ( f ) Plwr - 
a moil excellent Opkhalmick, mac ‘ 
The BAHAMA-SPIDER. It is of the Tarantula kind, 
and may be called Phalangium maximum Indicum 5 being 
the biggeft of all the Species fc. two inches long. Defcribed 
by Wormius , and others. He hath fix Eyes, not fo big as 
the fmalleft Pins head. They ftand not in a circle, as repre- 
fented by Laet, Wtormius , Pifo , and Olearius , but two and 
two on each fide, and two betwixt them tranfyerlly, 
thus He hath two ftrong black Ihining Teeth, like 
crooked Claws, {landing parallel, and with their points 
downward, 
