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Title: Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905
Subjects: Insects Beneficial insects Insect pests
Publisher: Salem, Naturalist's agency (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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by one layer of paper, and part of another; from Saussure. Fig. 4. Nest of /-listen tiiiHitltirix ; from Saussure. Fig. 5. Three primitive cells of Polistes; 5view of the same, one being eggless. The sides adjoining are angular. Figs. <! andc<n, a cell farther advanced, consisting of four cells, each containing an egg, andwith the edges of the cells built up higher and more decidedly six-sided ; original.Fig. 7. (ells of Icfiria guttutipeiinis. showing that each cell is built up independentlym regular hexagons. Fig. S. (Jround plan of a similar nest. Fig..». Ground planf cells of Tittiia morio ; from Smith. Fig. 10. Nest of Mischocyttams Itiliititn.t:from Saussure. Fig. 11. Nest of Apoica pallnhi; from Saussure. Fig. 12, Nest ofOdynerus birenimaculatus. Fig. 13. Nest of Odynerux nlbophaleratus; original.Fig. 14. Mud cell of Pelopceus flavipes; original. Fig. !.>. A row of spherical cellsof Enmcnes fraterna, with the female; from Harris. Plate 5.
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ARCHITECTURE OF WASPS. OUABUONIDyE. 157 as a cheriy. It is attached by a short stout pedicel to bushes,and the cavity is filled with the larvae of small moths. Raphiylossa odyneroides, from Epirus, described by S. S.Saunders, makes elongated cells in galleries in briars, storingthem with the larvae of what he supposed to be weevils. Tin-dark brown dense tough cocoon of a Chrysis was also found inthe cells. In Masaris, which connects the Vesparion with the succeed-ing family, the wings are not completely folded when at rest :there are but two subcostal cells ; the maxillae are rudimen-tary ; and the antennae are clavate and eight-jointed. M(isxvespoides Cresson, inhabits Colorado Territory. CUABKONIDJE Latreille. Sand-wasps, Wood-wasps. In themore typical genera the head is remarkably large, cnboidal,while the clypeus is very short, and covered for the most partwith a dense silvery or golden pile. The antennae are genicu-late, the long second joint being received, when at re

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