. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. TEYPOXYLON. 353 In the accompanying illustration are figured the nests of two insects, both of them natives of tropical America, and both belonging to the hymenopterous order. The upper insect is known to entomologists by the name of Trypoxylon aurifronSi but has at present no popular TRTPOXTLOM AND PSLOP^.US. This insect makes a great number of earthen cells, shaped something like those of the last-mentioned species; the cells being remarkable for t
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. TEYPOXYLON. 353 In the accompanying illustration are figured the nests of two insects, both of them natives of tropical America, and both belonging to the hymenopterous order. The upper insect is known to entomologists by the name of Trypoxylon aurifronSi but has at present no popular TRTPOXTLOM AND PSLOP^.US. This insect makes a great number of earthen cells, shaped something like those of the last-mentioned species; the cells being remarkable for the form of the entrance, which is narrowed and rounded as shown in the figure. In some cases the neck is so very narrow in proportion to the size of the cell, and the rim is so neatly turned over, that the observer is irre- sistibly reminded of the neck of a glass bottle. The insect makes quite a number of these nests, sometimes fastening them to branches, as shown in the illustration, but as frequently fixing them to beams of houses. It has a great fancy for the comers of verandahs, and builds therein â whole rows of cells, buzzing the while, and attracting attention by the noise which it makes. A A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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