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proper state in boxes. Geoffrey reared but Jive or six y 
out of three hundred . 
From the formation of its fling, which differs 
from that of all other infecls, (thofe of the following 
genus only excepted) fome Englifh authors name 
this infe£l sazo-fy. 
GENUS 3.—SIREN, TAILED WASP. 
The female lays her eggs in the interior of decayed 
trees : the larvae moil probably feed upon the wood, 
and always undergo their lafl metamorphohs in the 
place where they had lived while in the caterpillar 
flate. 
The firex is rare to be met with, but feveral fpe- 
cies have been caught in England. 
Girex Gigas\ 
This is the fpecies which is deferibed in Barbut, 
GENUS 4.—ICHNEUMON. 
One chara£ler of thefe flies is, the almofl continual 
agitation of their antennae; another, the abdomen 
being generally joined to the body by a flalk or 
The name of ichneumon has been applied to them 
from the fervice they do us, by deflroying caterpil¬ 
lars, plant-lice, and other infers, as the ichneumon, 
or mangoufle, deflrovs the crocodiles. 
The 
