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A catalogue of the infeéts which belong to the third order or clafs of natural changes, 
which [ call the Nymph. 
. MONG thefe infects which are chang- 
. ed according to the firft method or 
fpecies of the third order, and, by the power 
of the increafing and expanding limbs, which 
breaking open the skin, obtain the form of a 
Nymph, wherein all the parts appear to be 
finely and beautifully expreffed, I firft reckon 
Bees, I preferve in my collection their queen, 
as the is called ; and alfo feveral of the drones, 
which are properly males ; and alfo the work- 
ing Bees, which are of neither mafculine nor 
feminine fex; fince the proper organs neither 
of male nor female are to be found in them: 
whereas thofe organs are very diftinétly confpi- 
cuous in the queen and in the drones. This 
queen has. been improperly called the king. 
I difcovered the egg-bag of the female, or king, 
as it ufed to be called, in the prefence of the 
incomparable anatomift D. John Van Horne, 
profeflor of anatomy and furgery ; being aflifted 
therein by the fingular favour of Dr. W. V. 
Hoorn, a phyfician of Slooten, who readily 
gave us admittance to his bee-hives. 
I likewife preferve the Nymph of the drones, 
of the queen, and of the working Bees. I 
can likewife exhibit their webs, which are like 
thofe of Silk-worms, and alfo the honey-. 
combs ; between which are the cells or houfes 
of the drones and queen, and working Bees, 
befides many other things very worthy of ob- 
fervation concerning thefe little cells; for I 
have prepared them different ways, that the 
moft artificial order wherewith they are con- 
firucted might be made evident. I likewife 
keep in my cabinet the fting of that ufually 
called the king, and its bag of poifon ; as alfo 
the bag and the fting of the working Bees, 
which I have found to be divided into three 
parts. In fine, I preferve alfo in this colleGtion 
the tefticles and penis of the drones. 
It is worthy cbfervation in Bees, as well as 
other infects, that the lungs are found moft 
diftinctly confpicuous in them, confifting of 
two white bladders. Butin infe@ts which have 
blood, and are by that diftinguifhed from thefe, 
the lungs, when cleaned from their humours, 
are only compofed of bladders, as the cele- 
brated Marcellus Malpighius has moft accu- 
yately fhewn: nay, I thall fcarce fcruple to 
affert the fame thing of the other vifcera; ex- 
cepting only that the skin and the other mem- 
branes are interwoven with fmall and {carce 
perceptible clofed arteries, veins, and the like. 
Thefe veffels I have alfo obferved are fome- 
times again operiéd by the inexplicable power 
' of nature. 
The elegant and amazing ftru€ture of the 
~ reft- of the vifcera in Bees merits the highetft 
admiration. But as we thall hereafter defcribe 
thein feverally and at large, we hall now fay 
nothing more on themi, for as we here treat only 
in general of thefe infects: we ‘can only treat 
of them in general terms before their particu- 
lar hiftory to be hereafter exhibited. 
Confidering however that wonderful re- 
public of Bees, which is founded upon affec- 
tion only, and excludes all kind of {uperiority, 
we cannot but exclaim. that nature has con- 
cealed in the hiftory and manners of thefe crea- 
tures, treafures of ineftimable miracles, which 
are notwithftanding freely opened to us, pro- 
vided we diligently inveftigate the difpofition 
of thofe creatures. An unwearied fcrutiny is 
the only key to nature; nor is there any other 
than this, which can open the way into her 
myfteries. 
After the hive Bee, we are to name the 
Bees that live at large in gardens, fields, and 
forefts, and hence are called wild Bees. I pre- 
ferve fix {pecies of thefe, among which there is 
one with very long horns ; another has an ex- 
tremely rough hairy body ; and a third is ex- 
tremely like a Wafp: I have exhibited fome 
of thefe in their natural fize, in fig. rv, v. v1. 
vil. vir. Tab. XXVI. 
Tlikewife reckon in this third order the wood 
Bees of Aldrovandus, or that called the fo- 
litary Wafp by Mouffet. Their Nymphs, the 
web of the Worm, and the Bee itfelf are in 
my cabinet. I can likewife thew the little 
nefts which thefe creatures make of {mall 
ftones, grains of fand, and dirt. In thefe nefts 
we fometimes find a very remarkable Wajfp, . 
together with a Beetle, and the Worm out of 
which the Beetle is produced: nay, that Ver- 
micle or Worm was once in my pofeffion 
changed in the exact fpace of one year into 
fuch a Beetle, having had no other food in 
the mean time but little tones and dirt. Thefe 
obfervations create fome doubt which of the 
three beforementioned infects builds the nefts 
jaft now mentioned ; but to me it appears very 
certain, that the wood Bee is their architect; for 
fhe carries the little ftones, and the nett itfelf 
is found to be appropriated only to her. Such 
nefts are found in great numbers in the ruins 
of walls in France. 
We might likewife mention the Apes Man- 
fuete of Mouffet here, but becaufe they be-~ 
long to our fourth order, and are not Bees 
but real Flies, we fhall therefore defcribe them 
hereafter in their proper place. 
Next follow the Wafps; of thefe I preferve 
feven kinds, together with the combs, in 
which fome of their Nymphs ftill lie enclofed 
and fealed up as it were. I have fhewn the 
probofcis of the common Kind of Wafbs, in 
Tab. XVII. fig. vii. the poifon bladder in 
Tab. XVIII. fig. 1v. and laftly the ovary, in 
Tab. XIX, fig, iv.. In Tab. XXVI. fig. x. 
Ti I ex- 
