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the bead and the shoulder*, which yet as it grows more perfect,’becomes smaller, the middle incision is scarcely visible, whenthe eyes may bee teen, then the legs, and the horns begin to beeframed, and the wings ate latt finished. When they arc per-fect , they thrust up the covers over their heads which hang attheir backs until they come forth.

They excem an excrement while they seedywhich is containedunder them in the bottome of the cells,but astbon as the youngeat their way forth, the older Wafpe« carry it out of the neast.

The young Waspcs ( though the combes bte taken out oftbeit neasts) that are shut up ( not the other, for they must beefed, or they will dye in three or fourdayes) will come to life,and perfection,although slowly, because ot the small heat; butfor above three weeks I have.had them in a chamber successive-ly come to perfection.

Sals erefl They gather no hony,that is,make it, rob they do, but thenin AHst de** they spend it as fast as they get it, yet Seehger faith mcllificant,hist.1.5 they begin to breed in the latter end of the Spring, contrary toArist. in Ioc* Arijhtle, who faith, they breed not in the Spring,but Autumn,pred. whereas they miscarry by the end of Autumn,

They breed si,st their own kinde, and by the end of August,ordinarily have fledge Drones, which are about the greatnessof an old working Waip, but somewhat longer, whole coversthey heighten above the combs when they shut them up, but incells no greater than the Waspes.

The Drones have no sting, they have two testicles, which oncrushing are easily discovered, and they are coated with a hardblack tumclc, joyned together like a pair of breeches, sharpertowards the point, but broader upwards, and at the upper tr.dnot coated, but full of a whitish liquor ; the testicles are some-what like, but that they are united together to the young coatedGrastioppers whilst they art in the dams belly.

The Drones are not of so bright a yellow as the Waspes, andtheir moveable horns are a great deal longer, yea longer than themother Wasps horns, which they spread very wide like a fork,but not right forth, widening them by degrees, and towards thetops, bending them side-wayes.

Presently after they begin to breed Drones, they breed alsomother Waspes, which ajc twice, nay almost thrice as great as'.' ' ' the