Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . by one layer of paper, and part of another; from Saussure. Fig. 4. Nest of /-listen tiiiHitltirix ; from Saussure. Fig. 5. Three primitive cells of Polistes; 5view of the same, one being eggless. The sides adjoining are angular. Figs. <! andc<n, a cell farther advanced, consisting of four cells, each containing an egg, andwith the edges of the cells built up higher and more decidedly six-sided ; 7. (ells of Icfiria guttutipeii
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . by one layer of paper, and part of another; from Saussure. Fig. 4. Nest of /-listen tiiiHitltirix ; from Saussure. Fig. 5. Three primitive cells of Polistes; 5view of the same, one being eggless. The sides adjoining are angular. Figs. <! andc<n, a cell farther advanced, consisting of four cells, each containing an egg, andwith the edges of the cells built up higher and more decidedly six-sided ; 7. (ells of Icfiria guttutipeiinis. showing that each cell is built up independentlym regular hexagons. Fig. S. (Jround plan of a similar nest. ». Ground planf cells of Tittiia morio ; from Smith. Fig. 10. Nest of Mischocyttams :from Saussure. Fig. 11. Nest of Apoica pallnhi; from Saussure. Fig. 12, Nest ofOdynerus birenimaculatus. Fig. 13. Nest of Odynerux nlbophaleratus; 14. Mud cell of Pelopceus flavipes; original. Fig. !.>. A row of spherical cellsof Enmcnes fraterna, with the female; from Harris. Plate ARCHITECTURE OF WASPS. OUABUONIDyE. 157 as a cheriy. It is attached by a short stout pedicel to bushes,and the cavity is filled with the larvae of small moths. Raphiylossa odyneroides, from Epirus, described by S. , makes elongated cells in galleries in briars, storingthem with the larvae of what he supposed to be weevils. Tin-dark brown dense tough cocoon of a Chrysis was also found inthe cells. In Masaris, which connects the Vesparion with the succeed-ing family, the wings are not completely folded when at rest :there are but two subcostal cells ; the maxillae are rudimen-tary ; and the antennae are clavate and eight-jointed. M(isxvespoides Cresson, inhabits Colorado Territory. CUABKONIDJE Latreille. Sand-wasps, Wood-wasps. In themore typical genera the head is remarkably large, cnboidal,while the clypeus is very short, and covered for the most partwith a
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