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leeve) ate a kinde of Lice proper to them; their tails stretchedout, is very like their month , being as it were a complement ofdawes meeting in a round, and this is proper lo this kir.dc with-out a Ring, which 1 therefore call the Claw*tailed Humble-Bee.

Those which breed a living creature within them, after a sortproduce it egg-fafhion , for it is covered with a thin membranelike the (hell of an egg, but I discerned no such membrane en-circling the worm in this Humbic* Bee,

This grey Humble-Bee in the taileb some whit broad, andhath two circular horny claws, or pincers not v sibl*, till 'theybee drawn out, and within them two other shorter but not cir-cular.

Some creatures faith Bodintif , conceive eggs within them,and there hatch, and bring forth a living creature as the Viper,and all kinde of Whales, but neither hee , nor any other men-tions this Humble-Bee.

Whatsoever faith acknst»r/e,bringetk> forth a living creature,andnot first an egge, hath breasts, and all that have breasts, batepaps or nepples except the Dolphin, which hath two pipes, oneither side one, which the young ones fuck : The Philosopher,and Sealiger his Commentator, except not the Viper, cor theSlow-worm, because they perhaps concluded, that they hatchedthe young of analogical eggs within the dams belly; 1 am fatethey ought to have excepted this kinde of Humble-Beeas also that Flye that wee spake of before out of Setligtr.

How they order their young after they bee excluded , I can-not yet determine,for t have not found any of their ncasts, finerJ observed this particular.

The Cells or Pipes wherein the young are bred, are not flatat the top as the Bees and Wafpes,but oval, and are all of onematter and Colour , whereas the covers of the Wasps and Hor-nets arc, though of the fame substance» yet whiter andfiner.

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