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albitarsis. He is convinced that Ashmead is in error when he 

 claims that the last wasp mentioned uses the abandoned nests 

 of the two former. 



Turner (110) finds that an American false-spider, Eremobates 

 jormicaria, constructs her burrow much in the same manner 

 as does the Indian Galeodes. In the lower portion of the burrow 

 the milk-white eggs are deposited. The Indian form rests 

 quietly among the eggs and later guards the newly hatched 

 young from harm. The American form leaves her eggs un- 

 guarded, excavates a new burrow each night, and lays a second 

 batch of eggs before the first has hatched. 



The European wasp, Methoca ichneumonides, gives a tiger 

 beetle larva an opportunity to seize her and then stings the 

 larva and deposits her egg upon it. In an American form, 

 Methoca stygia, studied by him, Williams (118) did not find 

 any evidence of the wasp waiting for the larva to seize her. 

 The wasp enters the burrow, stings the larva, lays an egg upon 

 it, and then fills the burrow with sand. 



Pellett (77) noticed that a paper wasp, Polistes meiricus, 

 Say, lays an egg almost daily upon the side of a cell, and that 

 the mother spends most of her time feeding the young upon 

 kneaded mosquitoes. The investigator captured mosquitoes 

 and, after kneading them, gave them to the larva to eat. As 

 long as the mother was living, she would remove the poorly 

 kneaded mosquitoes, reknead them and eat them herself or 

 else feed them to some other larva. In the absence of the 

 female, he found it possible to raise the larvae upon these man- 

 kneaded mosquitoes; but, the worker wasps thus raised would 

 not nurse the remaining larvae. 



According to Belsing (9), the pecan twig-girdler begins her 

 egg-laying activities by girdling a twig. Although the branch 

 is seldom cut through, yet its own weight usually soon severs 

 it. On the twig the insect makes an incision, with her jaws, 

 at the base of a leaf bud. The incision is excavated by the 

 ovipositor, an egg deposited therein and the whole sealed with 

 a black, gluey substance which is discharged by the ovipositor. 

 With her mandibles, she then makes a number of small trans- 

 verse incisions below the point where the egg has been laid. 

 This causes the bark on drying to raise like a blister and not 

 crush the egg. 



