HYMENOPTERA. 



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is composed of two segments (Fig. 737, ^), while in the 

 Stinging Hymenoptera it consists of a single segment. 

 There may be exceptions to this characterization among the 

 minute members of the Terebrantia ; but the besfinninsf 



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student will hardly undertake the study of these. 



Family TENTHREDINID^E (Ten-thre-din'i-dae;. 

 The Saw-flies. 



In this family the head and thorax are wide ; the base 

 of the abdomen is not slender, as in most Hymeno.ptera, but 

 broadly joined to the thorax (Fig. 743,7; ; and the abdomen 



FIG. 743. The Locust saw-fly, Nematits similaris : a, egg ; 6, young larva ; c, full- 

 grown larva ; tf, anal segment of full-grown larva ; e, cocoon ; _/", adult, (From the 

 Author's Report for 1879.) 



of the female is furnished with a pair of saws. The larvae 

 look like caterpillars and feed upon leaves (Fig. 743) ; but 

 they have, ordinarily, from twelve to sixteen prolegs, while 



