Kx A Short Explanation 
monary tubes, which again degenerate into 
the tubes dd &c. 
ee &c. Ramifications of the pulmonary tubes 
diftributed through the body. 
J f Two places, where the greater pulmonary 
veficles have a direct communication with 
each other. 
BT GG. 
The pulmonary tube, which confifis of rings, and 
is bere reprefented as it appears when drawn 
out, the better to exhibit the fpiral courfe of 
thefe rings. 
ZT Ay B. qocy if. 
Parco. 
The internal parts of a Bee. 
a The gullet. 
6 The ftomach, furnifhed with flefhy fibres. 
¢ The pylorus, confifting of nodules, and full 
of a {ubftance of a yellowith red colour. 
dd The fmall gut, very fpacious or wide, full 
of mufcles, and furnifhed with valves. 
eee The vafa crocea, or yellow gut-veflels ; 
being an infinite number of little inteftines 
moft intricately connected, and moft firmly 
united with the narroweft part of the {mall 
ut. 
ah The narrow part of the inteftine. 
‘& The fudden dilatation of the inteftine, that: 
fucceeds the conftruction of it juft now men- 
tioned. In this place the inteftine looks like 
a membrane, and exhibits fix protuberant 
glandulous particles on its inner furface, as 
beft appears by the particular figure placed at 
one fide of that now under our confideration. 
bh The faid fix glandulous particles, as they 
appear more plainly on opening the inteftine 
that contains them. 
i The place where the inteftine, after dilating 
itfelf, narrows afecond time. I have given 
a particular figure to illuftrate this narrowing. 
& The place where this inteftine appears full of 
folds, like a rumpled piece of linnen. 
J The ftraight gut, over which the fting lies. 
mm The hinder part of the laft abdominal 
ring, which is covered with hair, and gives 
a paflage to the ftraight gut. 
nn Six particles or joints, of a fubftance be- 
tween bone and horn, which are articulated 
with the fhanks of the fting. 
oo ‘Two appendages always found along with 
the fting, and placed on each fide of the 
fting and the ftraight gut. 
p The bag containing the poifon, which the 
Bee injects into the wound made by the fting. 
gq The blind extremities of the tube that ferves 
to fecrete the poifon, and afterwards conveys 
_ it to the bag that is to contain it. 
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Reprefenting the fling, and all its parts. 
a The fting, compofed of a fheath or cafe, and 
of the TABLES. 
two fhanks, united to each other, and ter- 
minating in a fharp point, fo as to look like 
a fingle part. 
6 The poifonous bag. 
c The tube that ferves to convey the poifon 
from its bag, to the thickeft part of the 
fting’s fheath. 
dd The two fhanks of the fting, mutually 
conveying to each other. 
ee The fheath of the fting. 
J f The thickeft end of the theath, where the 
tube opens into it, by which it receives the 
infect’s poiion. 
g The extreme point of the fling, formed by 
the two fhanks of that organ, that are in this 
place clofely united. 
bb The beards with which the thanks of the 
{ting are armed at their extremities. 
e The tube that ferves to fecrete the poifon, 
which it difcharges into the poifon-bag. 
kk The two blind extremities of {aid tube. 
JI1111 Three pair of cartilages, of different 
forms, which are for the moft part of a deep 
black, and articulated among themfelves, and 
with the fhanks of the fling. 
mm "\'wo other cartilages lefs confpicuous than 
the former, with one pair of which they are 
articulated. Thefe two cartilages m m, are 
almoft entirely of a membranaceous fub- 
{tance. 
unnnununn Hight places in which the fore- 
going cartilages are articulated among them- 
felves, and with the fhanks of the fting d d. 
0000 Four mutcles ferving to move the fting 
different ways, by the afliftance of the fame 
cartilages. 
p p Two mufcles which draw the thanks of the 
{ting into its fheath. 
qq Two appendages of the fting which are 
moved along with it, and feem to anfwer no 
other purpofe but that of ornament. 
FOI G._ UI. 
Which again exhibits, but in a more diflintt man- 
ner, the fling and other parts relating tott. 
@ The thick or blunt extremity of the fting’s 
fheath, into which the infect theds its poifon. 
6 The {harp extremity of the fting’s fheath, to 
which the poifon runs, under the fhanks. 
cc The place where the channel of the fheath 
grows narrower, the better to retain the 
fhanks that are within it, in their proper fitu- 
ation. This particular may be ftill better 
difcerned under the letters dd. 
dd The fhanks of the fting laid up within the 
channel of the fheath, and beautifully re- 
tained in their proper fituation by the two 
proceffus of the fheath, already taken notice 
of under the letters cc. 
eee The borders or edges of the fting’s fheath, 
which are turned in, and received by the 
channels of the fting’s fhanks, and not only 
ferve to retain the fting in it’s {heath, but 
likewife allow it leave to move freely. 
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