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tions. They are cunning, wary, and easily alarmed, and except 
when benumbed with cold or heavy with eggs, know well how to 
avoid danger. They appear to me far more clever in this respect 
than the bees and wasps.” I borrow this remarkable passage of 
Mr. Lowne from Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend’s paper in the Cana¬ 
dian Entomologist , 1893, Yol. XXY, p. 135. 
