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#p large Head, very {mall Neck, .and flender in the 
middle part. Her Fangs or Jaws are furnifh’d with 
Teeth, which meet fideways, and not one over ano-= 
ther, like thofe ofother Animals. ‘They knead their 
Wax with thefe Fangs, attack, and hold their Ene- 
mics, carry out the Dead and Dirt from their Hives, 
and do many other Offices : ‘The Sting is in Shape 
like a barbed Spear, very fharp, eafily penetrates 
any Subftance, but with Difficulty is brought out a- 
gain, about a quarter of an Inch long, of which the 
better half is barbed, where there is a fmall Hole, 
» through which an inflammatory kind of Liquor is 
let into the Wound occafioned by the Sting, and 
{queczed ont by that Action, which occafions the 
Smart we feel upon being ftung. Their Eyes are 
very large, covered with a thick horny Membrane, 
upon which account they are very dim-fighted. To | 
fupply this Defe&t, they have two joined Horns 
which grow above the Eyes, about the Tenth 
of an Inch long; thefe they can contract or 
put forth at pleafure, and thereby very fenfibly feel 
_ . any thing within their reach: ‘The moft ufeful In- 
ftrument they have is their Probofcis, commonly 
called their Tongue, it istoo long to be contained 
at length in their Mouth, and fo 1s doubled under- 
neath, and reaches a good way down the Breaft : 
This is an hollow Tube, which the hath a power of 
lengthening or contraé¢ting at pleafure, and commu- 
nicates with the Honey-bag plac’d in the hinder-part 
of her Body, between the Sting andthe Gut. She 
thrufts this Tongue into the Flower and gathereth 
the Honey, which fhe depofites in her Bag till fhe 
Ro home to the Hive ; fometimes by means of this 
ongue fhe puts Water in her Bag to carry home, 
in order to mix up the Sandrack or Bee-bread for 
feeding the Young: This Bag is furnifhed with prox 
-per Moufcles, by which at pleafure the Honey its 
ay | . emptied 
