Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 223.—Sand-wasp, Sphex ichneumonea. Natural size. preys on the Cicada; the species of Bernbex seize flies, bearing themto their nests; our common species is Bembex fasciata Fabr. Family Nyssonidse. — Labrum short, either not or scarcely lateralis Say; Gorytes flavicornis Harris. These sand-waspsprey on flies, Tettigouise, etc. Family Philantbidae—In these wasps the prothorax is very short,transverse, not extending back to the tegulae; the fore wings have. FIG. 224.—Larrada grasping
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 223.—Sand-wasp, Sphex ichneumonea. Natural size. preys on the Cicada; the species of Bernbex seize flies, bearing themto their nests; our common species is Bembex fasciata Fabr. Family Nyssonidse. — Labrum short, either not or scarcely lateralis Say; Gorytes flavicornis Harris. These sand-waspsprey on flies, Tettigouise, etc. Family Philantbidae—In these wasps the prothorax is very short,transverse, not extending back to the tegulae; the fore wings have. FIG. 224.—Larrada grasping a young locust, and about to sting complete sub-marginal cells, and the abdomen is either sessileor sub-sessile. Philanthus vertilabru Say; Cerceris deserta wasps provision their nests with the grubs of weevils andBuprestids, and adult beetles, as well as honey-bees. ORDER HTMENOPTERA. 175 Family Mimesidae.—Abdomen petiolute, the petiole flattened andusually furrowed above; antenme clavate; middle tibiae with butone apical spur. Mimesa cressonii Pack.; Psen leucopus Say. Family Mellinidae—-This group is represented by a single genus,in which the abdomen is petiolate; the head cubical, front verybroad, eyes indented; and the first sub-marginal cell receives a re-current vein. Mellinus bimaculatus Say. Family Pemphredonidae.—Wood-wasps, in which the anterior wingshave two complete submarginal cells; prothorax short, transverse;metathorax short, rounded posteriorly; clypeus not cariuate orbeak-like. /Stigmas fraternus Say mines the st
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