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two little parts, and confequently under the 
lip d, is prefented to view another fmall and 
fomewhat prominent or extuberant part g, 
which refembles a tongue or trunk; and this 
increafing by degrees, at length indeed confti- 
tutes the trunk of the Bee. Moreover, there 
is fomething that hangs out of this little part 
above, like a {mall nipple, by which the Worm 
difcharges its thread to make the web, when it 
has eaten for a fufficient time and is going to 
be transformed into a Nymph. In fome other 
Worms I have feen befides the tongue g, the 
refemblance of a fmall and tubular probofcis, 
fituate in the middle between the tongue and 
the lip d, by the help of which the Worm can 
probably take in its meat. But I faw this laft 
mentioned tubular little part in the Worm, when 
Thad firft preffed its body alittle, and forced it 
forward, between my fingers, towards the head. 
Again, in other fuch Worms, I have obferved 
a horny or bony little part immediately under 
the lip. But thofe other little parts behind this 
did not appear fo diftin@ly to me. We mutt 
view thefe parts with a microfcope, and to that 
purpofe firft feparate and clear them one from 
another ; for their colour, which is of a whitith 
yellow, prevents their being accurately viewed 
together, and in order to fee them well one 
muft ufe a very powerful microfcope. 
The two eyes of the Worm cc are of a 
tranfparent white, and are limpid, fo that they 
feem inflated as it were with a lymphatic 
fluid. In other infects the eyes are ufually 
brown, blackith, green, red, blue, or yellowith; 
and in fome few of a very full or faint purple, 
that is, according as the tunica uvea in the in- 
ternal circuit of the eyes is coloured. It is evi- 
dent from this example that the eyes are not 
alike inall infects; nay, this diverfity with re{fpect 
' to the colour of the eye takes place equally in 
the larger and fanguiferous animals: this I have 
particularly obferved in Rabbits, in which the 
whole tunica uvea has been placed at the bottom 
of'the eye, and then feemed to me, for want of 
blacknefs, unfit ina manner to detain and colle& 
the rays of light for vifion ; blacknefs, and even a 
deep brown, have this property, that they never 
reflect the rays of light that fall upon them, and 
for this reafon alfo black paper takes fire much 
-eafier in the focus of a burning glafs, than that 
of any other colour, which reflects the rays, 
But the ways or means of divine providence, 
which can bring all things to one and the fame 
end, are innumerable. This I fhall diftin@ly 
explain in the following pages with refpe& to 
the fight of Bees; and at the fame time de- 
monftrate therein the omnipotent wifdom o 
God, from the eyes of thefe infects. | 
Between the two eyes, and not far from the 
lip d, occurs a part of a yellow colour ; nay, the 
lip itfelf and the tongue g are alfo yellowith. 
In the extremities of the fucceeding horns.ee 
there appears alfo a tharp pointed yellow and 
brownifh little part. But as all thefe minute 
parts are of a faint colour and are pellucid, they 
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cannot be diftinguithed but with great dith« 
culty. , 
In the other rings of the body, ten points 
of refpiration are obferved to be diftributed 
on each fide 444, having no horny or bony 
parts of any other colour ; as is the cafe in 
the Coflus, in Silk-worms, and in moft other 
infects. It is therefore very difficult to difcover 
thefe points, on account of the whitenefs and 
general brightnefs of the Worm; indeed no 
perfon can accomplifh his’ defign in this cafe, 
but by frequent and carefully turning of the 
microfcope to view the obje@ in different 
lights. Thefe points appear placed in a kind 
of long fiffure or flit, and are fomewhat de- 
prefied.. The pulmonary tubes or branches 
of the windpipe, which are’ internally joined 
to thefe points, are of a clear or limpid white 
colour, and glitter like mother of pearl ; and 
in fome worms which are not very fat, and 
have therefore a very pellucid body, they are 
feen alfo diftinétly through it; as is alfo, 
through the tran{parent body of the Worm, the 
ftomach, which in this Worm is ufually at 
that time filled with a yellow kind of matter 
like melted Bees-wax: the heart and fpinal 
marrow are feen alfo diftinétly through the 
body of the Worm, the former being placed 
in the back, the other in the belly. 
This Worm has avery flow motion, and 
whenever it is difturbed, it draws its head and 
tail, or the pofterior part of the body, a little 
inward. But if it be dragged out of its waxen 
cell, and any violence is by that means offered 
to it; then it will make other and more re- 
markable motions; for it fometimes twits and 
bends itfelf forward, and fometimes again 
backward. But if it be not moved or pro- 
voked, it lies without any vifible or con{pi- 
cuous motion; nor does it ever go out of its 
cell, until it hath grown into a perfect Bee. 
I hall now proceed tothe diffection of thefe 
Worms. ‘The Wortns of Bees, as well as 
other infects, may be diflected by the help of 
various contrivances, which I myfelf have 
often ufed: firft, then, I killed thefe Worms 
by different methods ; I boiled fome of them 
in fpirit of wine; others I {teeped in the al- 
kaheft liquor of Glauber, and in divers other 
coloured liquors: all which I have done, the 
better to diftinguith their internal parts, which 
are all of the fame colour, But thefe did noe 
anfwer with the expeéted fuccefs, becaufe 
the Worms abound with fat. If the Worm 
be caft into fpirit of wine, all its parts melt 
as it were and become watery. The parts 
are too much condenfed by boiling, and in 
the alkaheft liquor likewife they are in the 
beginning too ftrongly coagulated, but after- 
wards they change or turn into an aqueous 
fat or greafe ; therefore the beft method that 
I know is, if one only fuffocates thefe Worms 
in f{pirit of wine, and immediately afterwards 
prepare for the diflection of them. It is of 
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fervice 
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