. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. d dung of a species of tapir, and moulds it intoa rough sort of paper. A black wasp, which has smoky-coloured wings and a verylarge head, lives in Guiana, and is called the Armadillo Wasp{Tatiia niorid). Its nest is perhaps one of the most wonderfulexampl
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. d dung of a species of tapir, and moulds it intoa rough sort of paper. A black wasp, which has smoky-coloured wings and a verylarge head, lives in Guiana, and is called the Armadillo Wasp{Tatiia niorid). Its nest is perhaps one of the most wonderfulexamples of intelligent design in insects that can be put wasps choose the straight and upright branches of a treewhich has no lateral twigs, and they make it the axis or thesupport of the nest. The combs, which are composed only of afew cells, are fixed to the branch by means of a very solid mass ofwax. They are separated by a considerable interval, are placedone over the other, and sometimes there are ten of them. In theaccompanying engraving their numbers and mutual relations arevery well shown. The walls of the nest are formed by a fusi-form envelope, made up of a woody paper, and marked withtransverse tubings, which are, as it were, goffered. Moreover, thispaper, the fibres of which are arranged with wonderful regularity,. Tatua tnorio and nest. THE APIDES. 241 is tinted with longitudinal bands of different colours. The en-velope is attached closely to the branch above and below theextreme combs, and is perforated low down by a small opening forthe insects. Inside there is plenty of room between the combsthemselves, and the envelope is not attached to them, so that thewasps can pass up from the bottom to the top of the nest with ease. BEES. {Apidc,.) The nest-making Hyniciioptcra, which collect honey and pollen,are more interesting, so far as their organisation is concerned,than any others ; and if it were not for the ants, they might alsolay claim to possessing
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