. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. Ill 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 T. figulus 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 'broadly on the vertex ; two spurs on the midd
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. Ill 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 T. figulus 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 'broadly on the vertex ; two spurs on the middle tibia. We have two species of the genus Astata in Britain : one of them — A. loops — 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 Pentaloma, 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 bus and cockroaches. FlG' 46 —Astata male- Britaln- being their disagreeable char- acter. According to Smith, Oxybelus, 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 North American Diploplectron (with one species) is doubtfully associated. Sub - Fam. 6. Bembecides. - - Labrum frequently elongate ; wing - nervures extending very near to the outer margin; marginal cell of front wing not appendiculate; mandibles not emarginale externally ; kind body stout, not pedicellate. The elongation of the labruni, though one of the most trust- worthy of the characters of the Bembecides, cannot be altogether. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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