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 That which is further remarkable of thee flies is, that it appears they qualify the piders, by ome means, for remaining a long time in as perfect a tate as the firt day they were d in their cells; I have een piders, so immured for everal weeks, as whole and perfect in ize, hape, and colour, as when alive.

There is another pecies of thee flies, called galley waps, which is double the ize and of a bright light-blue colour. Thee have very long tings, which are plainly to be een when they are flying, with which they wound very everely, cauing the blood to pout out, as from the prick of a lancet.

The ting of thefe flies is veiy painful, and perons have been thrown into fevers by being tung everely by them; but they are eldom offenive, unles diturbed.

The wood-hore, called by the negroes the fairy-hore, is a very ingular inect. Its head is