A Short Explanation of the T ABLES 
EG, XI, % Letter: 2; 
Six exgs drawn after nature, and placed on their 
ends. Thefe eggs are oblong, very flender, but 
Somewhat thicker on their upper parts. 
FIG. XII. Letter b. 
Another Bee's egg viewed with a nicrofcope. It 
refembles the fein of a fifo, divefied of its 
Scales, but full retaining the marks of their 
infertions. 
Boe exit. 
Worms of Bees of different fixes, drawn after 
nature. 
@ A Worm newly hatched. 
4cde Four worms that received more nourith- 
ment, and are more grown. 
J g Two worms ftill bigger than the former, 
having had more time’ to make ufe of the 
nourifhment provided for them. ‘They are 
here reprefented, as they lie doubled in their 
cells. 
6 A Worm piaced on its belly, fo as to thew 
on its back a black line, inclining to a light 
blue or gray. This line denotes the fto- 
mach, which appears in this place through 
the tran{fparent parts that lie over it. 
7 A Worm lying on its back, and beginning 
_ to draw in the hinder part of its body, and 
move its head. . 
FTG OLY 
The full grown Worm of the Bee, viewed with 
the microfcope. 
aaa Its fourteen annular incifions or divifions. 
6 The head. cc The eyes. d The lip. 
ee-Two {mall parts, which afterwards form 
the antennz or horns. 
Jf Two other fmall, and as it were, articu- 
lated parts, which form the teeth. 
The rudiment of the tongue or probofis. 
bbb Ten breathing holes. 
2 The ftomach appearing on the back through 
the parts encloling it. 
FIG. XV. Letter a. 
The little houfe or neft of a Hornet, compofed of 
bits of barks. 
rei G. - XVI. 
A Bees cell full of Bees bread, placed in layers, 
6 Little grains, of which the faid fabftance, 
viewed with the microfcope, appears to 
confit. 
XXVIi 
T A.B; XXIV; 
FIG..I. IL. and III. 
Exhibiting the manner in which the pulmonary 
tubes, and breathing-boles of a Bee's. worm, 
are confiructed, 
@421%2345678910 Ten pulmonary 
_ tubes, open on each fide. 
6 6 Tubes which reach in circumference from 
one breathing-hole to another, by which 
means there is a communication between 
all the holes. 
cc The anaftomofis, or inofculation of the 
pulmonary tubes belonging to the oppofite 
fides of the body. 
ddd The breathing-holes, or orifices of the 
pulmonary tubes.’ Thefe holes lie naturally 
under the fkin, though they are here repre- 
prefented, as if they projected beyond it. 
e f Rings compofing the pulmonary tubes. 
Some of thefe rings ¢ are longer than others f 
gg The ikin cut off. 
BK Os@. 1 IV, 
The manner of finding out the blood-veffels of 
Lnfeéis. 
a A glafs tube, part of which bellies outin the 
middle. 
6 One of its ends drawn out to a very fharp 
point. 
¢ The other end, which is more open and wide 
than the former. It is at this end that the 
air is blown in. 
Bil Gia Vi 
The tubes that prepare both the matter of which 
the Worm forms its thread, and help it to 
Sorm them. 
a The tubes themfelves in which the faid mat= 
ter is prepared. . 
5 The place where thefe tubes meet, and form 
one trunk. 
¢c The divifions of the tubes. 
dddd The ends of the tubes, broken off. 
FIG. Vi. 
Some of the vifcera of the Worm of a Bee: 
aa Vhe ftomach. . 
b The oefephagus or gullet. 
c Glands appearing through the coats of the 
ftomach. 
dd Pulmonary tubes cut off from each fide of 
the ftomach, over which they {pread an in- 
finite number of ramifications. . 
e The tranfparent mufcles of the ftomach.. 
J The pylorus. au 
§&&g Four blind veflels or guts, 
6b The 
