FIG. XL. 
A Walp of am woul form 
abd Goa dL, 
win Humble Bee of a middle fize, having its 
belly furrounded with hairs of different 
colours. 
F IG. XIII. 
A tripilis Mufca, or three-baired Fly, being a 
kind of Pfeudophica. 
PIG. xiv: 
The Nef of the finalleft fpecies of Wafps. 
écc Three integuments, or coats of the neft. 
d The body of the neft, of which a piece is 
broken off, to fhew the 
e The hexogonal cells in which the eggs are 
hatched. 
PG Oe 
AWofp's neft, that I found fircking to a nettle, 
compofed of nothing but cells, built clofe one 
againft another, without any integument, or 
common covering. 
TAB. XXVII 
Reprefenting the hiftory of the Naficornis, or 
horned Beetle 
FE. de Ged. 
The Male. 
a Its horn, which, properly {peaking, grows 
rather from the head than the nofe. 
é Its mouth, feated in the breaft, furnifhed 
on the upper part with three little teeth, of 
a fubftance between bone and hern, and 
“without any periofteum; thefe creatures 
differ from men and quadrupedes in this, 
that their bones do not lie hid within their 
bodies, but appear naked on the outfide of 
their flefh, to which they ferve as a defence 
and covering. 
¢ The thells or fheaths of the wings. 
d A little triangular, horny bone, placed be- 
tween the faid fheaths, which’ it ferves to 
keep clofe to the body, and in the proper 
fituation: this bone lies on the firft ring of 
the abdomen. 
e The edge or border of the fheath, forming 
_a kind of ornament. 
FF One of this Hornet's eyes. ) 
gg. Two antennz or horns :. thofe of the male 
~ are-bigger than thofe of the female. 
_ &# A little horny bone, forming the third joint 
of one of the Hornet’s fix legs, which are 
all of them covered with ‘coarfe hairs. 
z The foot itfelf, confifting of five joints, the 
laft of which is armed with two crooked 
nails, 
A Short Explanation of th TABLES. 
Fil G. -IL 
Lhe female, fearce differing from theamale in any 
thing but fize, and her not having a born. — 
a A {mall prickle growing on the female’s head, 
to fupply as it were the want of a horn, 
6 The wings expanded under the fheaths, and 
the fheaths themfelves a little drawn in, 
by which means a better view is obtained of 
the little triangular bone, which ferves to 
retain the fheaths in their proper fituation. 
Between thefe fheaths there appear on the 
upper part of the fore or firft rings of the 
abdomen, which in the male can only be 
feen in the lower part under the fheaths. 
¢c Two joints in the rings themfelves, which 
they ferve to fold, fo as to make them fit 
under their fheaths, that they may receive 
“no harm, while the Hornet creeps under 
ground. 
PM. all. 
The Eggs. 
a Two larger eggs. 
6 Two f{maller eggs, but of different fizes, 
FIG. IV, 
The Worm. 
a The Worm of the horned Beetle, called 
Coflus, newly hatched. It here exhibits its 
very large head, two teeth, and three legs 
belonging to one fide of the body. ; 
F 1G... 
The Coffus full grown, 
@ Beautiful wrinkles and folds, with which 
the fkin is adorned. 
6 Nine reddifh {pots on one fide of the body, 
having each of them a hole through which 
the Worm breathes, and {upplies with air 
its pulmonary tubes. 
c A fpot like the former, belonging to the 
other fide of the body, and placed on the 
firft or fecond ring of it 
d One of the horns, which confift each of 
five joints. 
ee The teeth, or jaw bones. 
f Two articulated briftles, above which the 
lip appear feated between the teeth. 
g Three of the infect’s fix legs, each of which 
_is compofed of five joints, formed of a fub- 
ftance between bone and horn, befides a 
fingle nail; and which are moreover covered 
with hair. 
4 Some pulmonary tubes which appear through 
the extended out-fkin of the thirteenth and 
fourteenth rings of the infect’s body. 
7 The extremity of the ftraight gut forming 
the anus, 
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