. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. SPHEGIDAE ASTATIDES—BEMBECIDE 119 this Insect,, like Pelopaeus, stores its nest with spiders, and Peckholt has remarked that however great may be the number of spiders placed by the mother-wasp in a cell, they are all consumed by the larva, none ever being found in the cell after the perfect Insect escapes therefrom. The European 2\ fignhcs forms a nest either in bramble-stems or in sandy soil or walls; it makes use of spiders as provisions. Sub-Fam. 5. Astatides.—Eyes very large in the male, meeting li'oadly on the vertex; two spurs on the middle tibi
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. SPHEGIDAE ASTATIDES—BEMBECIDE 119 this Insect,, like Pelopaeus, stores its nest with spiders, and Peckholt has remarked that however great may be the number of spiders placed by the mother-wasp in a cell, they are all consumed by the larva, none ever being found in the cell after the perfect Insect escapes therefrom. The European 2\ fignhcs forms a nest either in bramble-stems or in sandy soil or walls; it makes use of spiders as provisions. Sub-Fam. 5. Astatides.—Eyes very large in the male, meeting li'oadly on the vertex; two spurs on the middle tibia. "We have two species of the genus Astata in Britain : one of them—A. hoojjs—is known to form burrows in the ground, each of which contains only a single cell; this, it appears, is usually provisioned with bugs of the genus Pentaioma, Insects re- markable for their strong and offensive odour. St. Fargeau records that this species also makes use of a small cockroach for forming the food - store : thus exhibiting an unique catholicity in the toleration of the disagreeable; almost the only point of connection be- tween bugs and cockroaches beinc their disagreeable char-. FiG. 46 Britain. Asiaia hoops, male. acter. According to Smith, Oxyhelus, another genus of Fossores, is also used. Authorities are far from agreement as to the validity and relations of the sub-family Astatides. It consists only of the widely-distributed genus Astata, with which the Xorth American Diploplectron (with one species) is doubtfully associated. Sub-Fam. 6. Bembecides. — Lahrum frequently elongate, wing - nervurcs extending very near to the outer margin; marginal cell of front 'wing not appendiculate; mandibles not emarginate externcdly; kind body stout, not pedicellate. The elongation of the labrum, though one of the most trust- worthy ot the characters of the Bembecides, cannot be altogether. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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