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_ The humble-bee Fie is placed in this clafs, on account of the ftruce 
Sure of its fucker or fnout. It is very like a common Humble-bee, in 
tts thape, and even its fize, being covered with extremely thick down; 
Its body is fhort, roundifh, and obtufe, and its colour black, but of a 
Teddifh-brown on the fide: the trunk or fucker is long, which it always 
Carries thruft out, the wings are partly brown, and partly whitifh, and 
@ great deal of down cn the body is white, which with the blacknefs 
elow, has a very uncommon effect. It is very common in gardens, 
where it fucks the honey out of the flowers. 
_ The little Gnat is confiderably fmaller than the common Gnat, and 
has an oblong flender blackifh body, with a large head and eyes; the 
Wings are long, narrow, and of a dull white, and three dutky {pots 
Near the outer edge. Its bite is attended with pain, and makes a mark 
that remains forfome time. It is common in woods, and about waters. 
Linnaeus takes notice of fix kinds of Gnats, namely, 
t. The dufky Gnat with a forked fnout: this Ray takes to be the fe- 
Male of the Dometic Tipula, becaufe it does not bite or fting, It is 
of an ath-colour, and twice as large as the following. It has no points: 
on the wings, and from between the jaws there proceeds, or more pro= 
Perly from the trunk, a forked dart. 
2. The afh-coloured Graz with eight rings on the body, is the come 
Mon Gnat, which is met with almott in all parts. 
3. The Grat with wings of the colour cf water, marked with three 
black fpots. Some call it the lea Gnat with blackith fpots, it being: 
No bigger than a {mall flea, of a brown colour ; but the wings are white 
and narrow, marked on the outer edge with three dark fpecks, When 
the wings are fhut, it appears like three brown ftreaks. 
4. The black Guat with the wings of the colour of water, black feet, 
@nd a white ring: there are prodigious numbers of thefe in Lapland, 
in the dufk of the evening, and they make a great a noife: they will 
bite any part, even the eyes, mouth, and nofe, and they are not eafi- 
ly driven away. It is very fmall, is in fhape like a common Flie, and 
4s of the fize of a Flea. 
5. The downy Guat with wings in part of a dufky colour: this is 
found in gardens, where they fly about without ceafing, and feem. to 
delight in the {mell of the flowers. It is called by Ray the Gnat fhaped 
likea filk worm Moth, all over hairy and black, with a blunt hinder 
Part of the body, and red fides. 
6. The black Gnat with a dufky body, and a white forehead. In 
the tranfa@ions of Upfal, it is called the blood-fucking leaft Flie, with 
White wings. It is very troublefome to horfes in the fummer feafon, 
{pecially in Nortbland, where it gets among the hair and fucks the 
lood. ‘It is more fond of horfes than men, and cannot be driven a- 
Way: the feelers are like threads, though it is in the {hape of a Flie} 
nd the head, feet, and breaft are black, only on the fides of the breaft 
: is of an ath colour, and there is a white {pot above and below the 
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