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fpecies. I found thefe Ants running on fome 
willow-trees, and they feemed to live only 
there. But I have not been hitherto able to 
fee their males. 
The fourth fpecies was again lefs, but of a 
thicker and more reddifh body; nor have I 
ever found its males. The fifth fpecies was 
of a more flender, and at the fame time fome- 
what longer body than the fourth: I faw the 
males of this with four wings. The fixth 
fpecies that I obferved was wonderfully {mall , 
it was of a bright red colour, had two eyes, 
two horns, two jaws, and fix legs ; and it was, 
like the reft, divided regularly into a head, 
. thorax, and belly. I have not yet feen the 
males of this fpecies ; and therefore I only re- 
prefent the working Ant belonging to it in 
its natural fize in figure xv. Thefe little 
Ants are feen only about the middle of the 
month of July ; but then fome hundreds ap- 
peared, and they yearly at {tated times infefted 
the cheefe-loft and pantry, notwithftanding all 
our endeavours to drive them away. After 
October not one of them was to be feen until 
the next year. It feemed to us that they came 
out of a wine-cellar, and crept through the 
{mall clefts between the beams and timber 
planks to the place where they could find food. 
This, which was firft conjecture, we after- 
wards found to be true; for when the cellar 
had been kept full of water for fome months, 
we never afterwards perceived any Ants. 
What merits particular regard in this hiftory 
is, that thefe Ants remained fo long as to the 
middle of July in the earth and fand, and then 
firft came in fight; but after October all of 
them betook themfelves again to their little 
cells. Whether they lived in the mean time 
without food, or whether, as is common with 
many infects, the old ones died, and young 
ones were produced out of the remaining eggs 
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and Nymphs, I cannot determine: but from 
the analogy of other infects I can eafily judge 
that the manner of thefe creatures living was 
very fingular and uncommon. Befides, it is 
probable that the males of thefe Ants were 
deftitute of wings, fince I have for fome years 
made my obfervations on them, but could 
never find any whatfoever that had wings. I 
would not, however, aver this for truth ; be- 
caufe nature is wonderfully confiftent with her- 
felf in all her works. Dr. Padbrugge has in- 
formed me that he alfo obferved many fpecies 
of Ants in the Eaft-Indies ; and particularly 
that there were white Ants there, lefs than the 
common Dutch ones; and that they were 
very deftructive of food and fome kinds of 
merchandife. I have this year received from 
the fame gentleman a very beautiful figure of 
the black fpotted red Ant, which he fent me 
from the ifland of Ternate: it is fomewhat 
lefs than the Ant of the fecond f{pecies which 
I have defcribed above. ‘The largeft Ants this 
gentleman has obferved he affures me were as 
long as the firft joint of the thumb ; and their 
nefts were fix feet long in circumference and 
were divided into various particular cells: thefe 
places of reception were fometimes all found 
under the earth, and fometimes moftly pro- 
minent above the furface ; but they were al- | 
ways framed with an amazing art. I cannot 
determine how this matter is, for Ants make 
no nefts here: it is enough for me to give a 
faithful relation of what I have been informed, 
and particularly to recommend the authority 
of this curious gentleman. He likewife fent 
me the figure of a Frog with that of the red 
Ant; its hinder legs are cloven, which is very 
uncommon, and probable the cafe only in 
Frogs that live on dryland. This will be ren- 
dered more certain by accurate refearches. 
The very curious hiftory of the Naficornis, or Rhinoceros, or horned Beetle, WMuftrated 
with accurate figures. 
EVN eR Orb 
« WY 7 E admire the fhoulders of Elephants 
¢ that carry towers; the necks of 
“© Bulls, and the furious toffes from their horns; 
“* the ravages of Tigers, and the manes of 
«* Lions: but we fhould know that nature is 
“* no where more complete and perfect than 
‘* in the fmalleft objects.” This is a very jutt 
fenténce pronounced by Pliny in his far diftant 
age, though the wonderful works of nature 
were at that time but obfeurely known. We 
fhould therefore, furely, endeavour to fearch 
into nature near at hand, and where the is 
- confpicuous in the moft minute things, or her 
miracles will never be difcovered. Then will 
it be made clearer than the fun at noon, that 
as many natural myfteries are hidden in the 
Wet) To ON, 
narrow compafs of the moft vile and contemp- 
tible of animals, as in the vaft vifcera of the 
largeft. In order to elucidate the incompre= 
henfible power of nature, it muft be invefti- 
gated in the fmalleft creatures. Nor let the 
extreme minutenefs obferved in thefe, deter 
any from the inquiry ; it fhould rather encou= 
rage us to be more diligent: for the lefs the 
work of nature is, the greater and more mag- 
nificent it afterwards fhews itfelf in thofe at 
firft invifible parts, and exhibits to our fight 
and touch all thofe things which before eluded 
our fenfes, and our moft acute intelle@ual fa= 
culties. The greatnefs and majefty of God 
are confpicuous only in the works framed by 
his infinite power. But as our eyes are ot 
fufficiently 
