Those t Sh © AWA tec TN EO: S. 23h 
triangle. The-head, breaft, and legs, are al- 
moft of the fame colour, and they are covered 
with very delicate hairs. The fting is pro- 
duced from the opening of the lower ring, 
ab. XXV lfies tx. 3 
Of the Wafp kind I preferve nine different 
kinds, amongft them is that which I found 
in the neft I have already mentioned, as made 
by the Bees that ufe little ftones for that pur- 
pofe. The greateft difference that occurs be- 
tween the various kinds of Wafps, confifts 
chiefly in fize and colour, though in one or 
two kinds there is befides a great difagree- 
ment in their ftructure. - But I thall not dwell 
long upon thefe particulars. The larger kind 
of Wafp is above three times as big as the 
working Bee, and has like them and Hornets, 
fix legs, a probofcis, two eyes, two horns, 
and four wings. The body of Wafps, as well 
as Hornets, converges to a point, and is 
fhaped in the fame manner with that of the 
particular Bee which vulgarly goes by the 
name of the king Bee. The rings of the 
body are variegated with blackith {pots, and 
circular furrows upon a yellow ground. This 
general defcription will, I hope, be fufficient 
to fhew what kind of an infect the Walp is. 
That reprefented in fig. viii. is formewhat lefs 
than the largeft {pecies of all. Under it is to 
be feen another of a very fingular ftruéture, 
fic. x1. * 
_ [have befides thefe eight kinds of Humble 
Bees or Bombylii, which differ from each 
other in fize and colour. One kind has its 
body exceeding black, and is furnifhed with 
moft beautiful wings of a colour between 
azure and purple. The largeft kind is feven 
times as big as the largeft working Bee ; and 
this has a pretty long trunk. Its legs notwith- 
ftanding are {mall in proportion to its fize. 
The head is fomewhat oblong: the eyes are 
formed like a crefcent, and the horns lie di- 
rectly between them. The breaft is very 
- broad, and it is covered thick with rough 
hairs; from the bottom of it {pring fix hairy 
legs, which if compared with the body, are 
very fhort, and from the upper part of it rife 
four wings ; the inner pair very fmall. The 
belly is very broad and hairy, and fomewhat 
pointed on the lower part. The hairs that 
grow thus on the belly, are placed principally 
near the rings of it, and they are of a great 
variety of colours, as white, yellow, red, black, 
and others in fome kinds; whereas in other 
{pecies they are only of two. The Humble 
Bee, or Bombylius, of which I here give a 
drawing, Tab. XXVI. fig. x11. is of a mid- 
dle fize. 
Of the Pfeudofphece Ichneumon, or baftard 
Wafps, I have by me twenty-five kinds. 
* Some of the Bees breeds with us in the ff 
or other leaves ; and there is fomething very e 
paffage of one another, and it would be thoug 
for they are built in fucceffion after it: but 
Thefe differ from each other in fizé, colour; 
and ftructure. I refer them to the Wafps 
merely on account of the external refemblance © 
which fome of them have to real Watfps, 
from which, however, in generation and dif- 
pofition they widely differ: moft of thefe pro- 
ceed from a Chryfalis, after having lived 
fome time in the form of a Worm. Thefe 
alterations are performed in a very furprifing 
manner; and as that from a Nymph to a 
Wafp takes up three or four weeks, the feve- 
ral gradations of it in point of colour, growth, 
and expanfion of members may be very accu- 
rately traced. Some of thefe baftard Wafps 
which I preferve in my collection, prey upon 
Flies ; others upon Spiders, whofe legs they 
break to pieces and then devour them. There 
is likewife amongft them the Fly called Uni- 
fata, or one briftled, having one hair at its 
tail, and that which is diftinguifhed by the 
name of Tripilis or three-haired, fig. x11. 
for thefe Flies are all baftard Wafps: I can- 
not now treat particularly of them, as it would 
require a large volume. For the fame reafon 
I omit {peaking in this place of the difpofition, 
nature, method of propagation, and ftructure . 
of Hornets, Humble Bees, or Bombylii, and of 
the true Wafps; nor do I choofe to fay any 
thing of the infects called Vefpate or fhort 
Wajps, their building, houfes, and other re- 
markable particulars, of which I have fome 
{pecimens. Iam poffefled of a moft curious 
Hornet’s neft, fig. xiv. and xv. as likewife of 
the male and female Hornet, the Worm from 
which they originally proceed, the web in 
which this Worm is enclofed, the exuviz it 
cafts off on becoming a Nymph, and all the 
excrements it voids, together with the internal 
coat of the ftomach and inteftines. I can 
likewife fhew the Nymphs of Hornets at’ 
various periods of their changes, and the 
rudiments of thofe new colours which they 
by flow degrees attain. As to the internal 
parts of Hornets, I have the membranaceous 
net-work of a ftomach of one, fome pulmo- 
nary tubes, one of the filk or {pinning bags, 
and a {pinal marrow. 
In my collection alfo are various kinds of 
Flies fo like Bees, that fome authors have 
called them by that name. Such is Goedaert 
and J. de May’s Bee, which has only two 
wings. This is a fufficient mark to diftinguith 
thefe infects from each other, though there 
are fome Flies that have two pair of wings. 
Such is one in my mufeum, which is very 
beautiful, furnithed with tufted antenne, and 
in other refpects like a Bee, only that it is 
a great deal larger. What is moft fingular 
in this Fly, is its proceeding originally from 
a water infect. But as I have already faid an 
ce air, not in a hive or comb. The young are bred up in the cafes of the lilac 
xtraordinary in the manner of their hatching. The cells feem to clofe up the 
ht the young creature in the hindermoft muft eat all the reft to pieces to get out, 
though the whole cafe of cells be the work of many days, the young all 
hatch together ; the eggs laid Jateft having obtained a forwardnefs in the body of the female, which make them difclofe their 
young as foon as the firit. 
entire 
