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stcsigb 1 but astoop, that the young may not so readily fall outas they would if they were directly downwards.

The feed is at first almost as small as a Mustard-seed, of adarkish white>not spherical,but oval,and they fasten it not to the Atift.de hist,,bottomc of the cell (Jed ad cell* Ut ut afttm w»re/aith Aristotle) A " InuJ *but to a corner or angle,a pretty distance above the bottome, and C ' *observe (for the most part) an exact order in disposing of theirseed , that they keep the same angles in every cell, not one in anangle of the South-sideof a ccll^ and another in an angle of theNorth, or the East, but all in the Soucb, so that the seed lyes or- ,

derlyinrows: But if onelayes her feed in the contrary angle(as sometimes, though seldome) then the next takes it for arule, and it is punctually observed perhaps through a wholerange of cells. _ >

This seed being hatched ( for the manner how, see the tenthChapter) grows a little while by venue of the seminal power, itsticks at one end, bendmg cowards the middle of the cell, butsomewhat erected ( or rather dejected, for the head is down-ward) that it way receive food, and when it nils the breadth ofthe cell, it grows loose, and falls (or to speak properly ascends)to rhe bottome of the cell, for the mouth of the cell is down-wards raising it self; and now the mouth of the worm begins tobee visible, and it is daily fed , as wee noted of the Bees ( forthey are Infects of the lame nature) but somewhat degenerating; Ge0rg [ ug .and PliiJ faith, mf<ettt,tadem prope natura qu* epibut, and grows catorius,to the full dimension of the cell: when as wee noted in theHornet, it growadull and torpid . and refusing meat is (hut upby a cover wrought over the head : But to return back alittle.

At fust, after the feed is hatched,it is oval towards the bead,near to the tail there is a blackish spot; It will contract it selfalmost round , sometimes as a Cacerpiller ,*when it moves, a*if it would go, sot indeed the worm makes no progressive mo-tion.

If you break the worm, in the body is a chick waterifh hu-mour, with a harder substance, like a black list in the middle ofit, and that from end to end.

The transmutation begins to bee first visible in the superiorpart, and the eyes are Erst discerned, and the incision between

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