. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 138 HUNTING WASPS jLvWjLiu. TRRLTDN RnVMEHT Fig. 2: Details of Sericophorus. 1. Nest of the wasp 8ericophorus chalybaeus Sm. with six cells radiating from the main shaft. The small figures indicate the length in inches of the galleries, filled so perfectly by the female that they could not be identified. (Drawn from a sketch by Clifford Beauglehole.) 2. a. Cocoon of 8. chalybaeus Sm.; b. 8. victoriensis Raym.; c. 8. clifforcli Raym. 3. Ventral view of fly, Musca scorbens showing the anterior leg raised by the wasp, 8. cliffordi Raym., to p
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 138 HUNTING WASPS jLvWjLiu. TRRLTDN RnVMEHT Fig. 2: Details of Sericophorus. 1. Nest of the wasp 8ericophorus chalybaeus Sm. with six cells radiating from the main shaft. The small figures indicate the length in inches of the galleries, filled so perfectly by the female that they could not be identified. (Drawn from a sketch by Clifford Beauglehole.) 2. a. Cocoon of 8. chalybaeus Sm.; b. 8. victoriensis Raym.; c. 8. clifforcli Raym. 3. Ventral view of fly, Musca scorbens showing the anterior leg raised by the wasp, 8. cliffordi Raym., to place her egg (see arrow) at the articulation of the coxa. 4. Anterio-ventral view of head of larva. 5. Egg of Sericophorus. 6. Typical dichotomous shaft of 8. teliferopodus Raym. with its two cells at the end of short galleries. 7. Tumulus of sand at the entrance to the shaft. 8. Black wad of excremental debris at base of cocoon. 9. Young larva of 8. chalybaeus. Beauglehole was fortunate in collecting several mutilids that haunted the vicinity of the shafts, and there is little doubt some of these at least are parasitic on the larvae of the wasps. His most interesting discovery was two wasps of another genus, and which he thought might deposit its egg on the young larva. This observer posed the following question. "Do you know of any parasitic wasp which lays its eggs in the sericophorine nests? There is one here which appears to be parasitic. I watched her actions for an hour or so, and it immediately followed down a sericophorine that had just descended with her fly. "A few minutes later, the parasite ? emerged from the shaft, and waited at the top, facing the entrance, and every now and then she looked down the shaft, as though expecting something to 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 orig
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