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 The Spaniard fly and free-maon fly are both of the wap kind, but they differ from each other in ize, hape, and alo in the ubtance and curious manner of making their nets. The firt is of the hape of a mall bee, and builds its net of a waxy matter, in the form of a mall flat button full of holes, which it upends by a ilky ligament to the cielings of houes, or to the boughs of trees, where it has the benefit of the wind to vibrate to and fro.

The free-maon fly is exactly of the hape, ize, and colour of a wap, and builds its net of mud, in the hape of organ barrels. It is curious to ee thee little creatures at work, they hew o much art and industry, ome of them fetching the mud in their mouths, while others are forming their mall cones, or filling them up when finihed with numbers of various-coloured mall piders, which they alo bring in their mouths, for food to their young when hatched. That