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and taking fome fmall globules of earth, rolled them 
one by one into the burrow ; fcraping the dull in 
by intervals with its forefeet, in the manner of a 
dog; thus alternately rolling in pieces of earth, and' 
fcraping in duff till the hole was full; fometimes 
going down (as it feemed to me) to prefs down the 
earth ; and once or twice dying to a fir-tree which 
grew near, perhaps to get turpentine to glew it 
down, and make it firm ; the hole being filled and 
equalled with the fuperficies of the earth, that its 
entrance might not be difcovered, it took two fir- 
leaves, which were near, • and laid them by the 
mouth ; mofl probably to mark the place.” 
The fphex is called by fome the ichneumon vafp. 
Sphex Crib aria . 
This infe£t has its fore-feet provided as it were with 
fhields ; it gathers the empty vehicles of the farina 
which has difcharged its pollek, from the ftigmata 
of plants ; thus living upon bran. 
GENUS 6.—CHRYSTS GOLDEN FLY. 
Th is infe£l lives chiefly in the holes of old walls • 
where it likewife lays its eggs : the larvae refemble 
thofe of the Wafp. 
Chryfis Ignitis. 
This dwells in holes of walls, between the (tones, 
and in the mortar that cements them. 
It 
