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Us another) of a dark yellow, vrhich ( if after they hate bredtheir young ) they fill v»ich Bee-bread, and some with hooy;

! their hony is of a bright yellow, very sweet, but not so pleasantas the Bees, having a rank taste ( occasionally ) from the ground,their combes are not wax ( as before ) though gathered of theflowers, they are as tough brown paper, but not of so dark acolour, broken, they shew like J‘ft* paper made of Cotton,•woolley.

They irgenderwith their t ayls opposite one to another, in themeane time restiag on some plant, orthesttlmp of a tree, theycontinue long in venery, and while they copulate, often claptheir wings, and make a shrill noyse; their mates they chuse inthe Nestjand are carried away by them. These as other Insectsbefore described, after they have done breeding ot Females, a-bout the end of /4«g«/f } breed Drones for the propagation of thesekind.

It is remarkable, that though the eels or pipes wherein theybreed ate of a like magnitude, yet the Humble*Bees in thesame Nest ate of various magnitudes, some more than twice asgreat as others, herein differing from Bees and Waspes, whichcontinued in the same dimensions that they were first Metamor-phosed into, only when they are strong and lusty, see me some-what fuller and plumper, but wben they grow old, then theygtow lank and wither; whereas the Humble-bees, many ofthem double their first magnitude.

They are very laborious and hardy Creatures, working insuch weather when the Bees dare not, and continuing itmany weeks, after Hornets and Waspes are laid up, or mis-carried.

There is another kind of great Humble-Bee, in the fore-partexactly agreeing with the former description, but the ceatfccrpart is altogether of a shining black, ar.d not so hairy as the for*mer, it is (harp pointed at the taj 1, and hath but one cavity, outof the which comcth a sting, which growetb out of the under part•of the tayl, and is forked like a Snakes tongue, having twopoint* forth-right, not barbed like a Bees, so that it stingesmore than once ; there are two covers on either side of the stingto keep it close and fase, and these are as long as the sting, butbigger, rougher, and spreading ontbc top, I conceive to hold