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Sphex y Spirifex-j or, Turner Savage . 
This creature is terrible to fm aller infers : it lives 
in caverns of the earth, on the Tides of hills and 
cliffs, and in holes made in the mud walls of little 
villages. 
In Peterborough, in Northamptonfhire, one was 
taken which had formed its cell in the mud wall of 
a cottage, which was wrought into the appearance of 
honey-comb, by the multitude of thefe creatures. 
The eggs are laid in the back part of the cell, 
where the animal lives, evenly arranged, and when 
the time of their being hatched is near, the fly brings 
in a number of flaughtered infefls - for food to the 
expe&ed young, fhe then clofes up the mouth of the 
hole with mud, and her care is over. When the 
worms hatch, they find their food ready, and when 
they have eaten their fill, they reft and take their 
change. 
Sphex Hirta, 
U 1 obferved it dragging a green caterpillar thrice 
its own fize; when it had brought it a good way, 
it laid it down near the mouth of a little burrow it 
had made in the ground, then removing a little ball 
of earth, with which it had covered the orifice, it 
firft went down, and after flaying a fhort time re¬ 
turned, and feizing the caterpillar again, drew it 
down with him , then leaving it there, came up 
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