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téar them to pieces, and thus avenge the whole na- 
tion of flies of fo formidable a foe : Others, deftitute 
of wings (and thofe are females) depofit their eggs in 
fpiders nefts. The ichneumon of the bedeguar, or 
‘fweet briar fponge, and that of the rofe tree, perhaps, 
only depofit their eggs in thofe places, Coca they 
find other infects on whichthey feed. . | 
_ The genus of the ichneumon flies, might, with pro- 
priety, be termed a race of diminutive canibals. 
—SOXnXOHIOVO— 
GENUS IX. 

FORMICA, 
CHARACTER. Be ud 
A LITTLE upright fcale is fituated between the 
females and neuters have a {ting, concealed in the ab- 
domen. ‘The males and females are winged ; and the 
neuters are apterous, or without wings. 
—QIOI1SKOQr— 

FORMICA——ANT. 
have been related of this remarkable infect, we fhall 
confine ourfelyes A the moft authentic accounts, and 

breaft and the belly. The-feelers are broken, and ~ 
have the firft articulation longer than the reft. The — 
a 
OT to impofe upon our readers thofe fables which - 
