5 § Of A N T a 
with Egg, only perhaps it is at firft a little 
whiter. 
That the large Ant-Flies are Females,, and that 
feme of them become Queens, is exceeding proba¬ 
ble from the following remarkable Incidents. 
If you compare a large Ant-Fly, when five or 
fix Days old, with a Queen of the fame Colony ? 
and not with Egg, they will nearly, refemble each 
other in Size, Structure of their Parts, and in 
every Circumftance, except the Wings and Glofs 
of its Complexion, which feems to be only the Pro¬ 
duce of Time. 
If you {trip a large Ant-Fly of its Wings, when 
a Week old or more, which is very eafily done, 
for they will come off by the mod: gentle Touch 
imaginable, and then place it in a Microfcope 
with a Queen, you will perceive no manner of 
difference as to their Frame. The like indented 
Places, or little Hollows in the Breaft whfcre the 
Wings commonly lie, will be obferved in both; 
from whence there is great Reafon to believe the 
Queen was originally adorned with fuch Gayety, 
and appeared in the Character of a Fly. 
It 
