. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. POLYBIA. 443 of several groups, and may therefore be placed in either of them. For example, the South American wasp, which makes the nest called popularly the " Dutchman's pipe," may be ranked either as a builder, a pensile, or a social insect. In such cases, therefore, I have endeavored to select that characteristic which seems to be marked most strongly, and have arranged the insects accordingly. Just as the hymenoptera are chief among the pensi
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. POLYBIA. 443 of several groups, and may therefore be placed in either of them. For example, the South American wasp, which makes the nest called popularly the " Dutchman's pipe," may be ranked either as a builder, a pensile, or a social insect. In such cases, therefore, I have endeavored to select that characteristic which seems to be marked most strongly, and have arranged the insects accordingly. Just as the hymenoptera are chief among the pensiles and the builders, so are they chief among the Social Insects, and the spe- cies which may be placed in this group are so numerous, that it will only be possible to make a selection of a few, which seem more interesting than the Polybia. In the British Museum there are some very remarkable nests made by hymenopterous insects belonging to the genus Polybia, several of which are drawn in the As. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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