Hymenoplerous Insects. 



perhaps more, angular cells, formed, as it were, into a cir- 

 cular table set out in the middle of the chamber. The cells 

 and walls of the chambers, that is, the whole nest, are com- 

 posed of an admirable fabric resembling finely textured grey 

 paper. 



Fig. 69. is one given in illustration of a query put in 

 Vol. III. p. 94., and which is answered in Vol. III. p. 195., 

 and p. 476. as well. Besides this, H. Gunt had, in Vol. II. 

 p. 404., asked a query on t£ a curious ball containing bees." 

 To this query a reply is communicated in Vol. III. p. 195., 

 by Wm. Stowe, who deems the "curious ball containing 

 bees" to have been a wasp's nest, either that of the V. holsatica 

 Fabricius, as described in Rees\s Cyclopaedia, or that of the V. 

 campanaria, as described in Knapp's Journal of a Naturalist. 



Wm. Stowe accompanies his 

 remarks with a figure of a nest 

 (,y%. 70.) of one or other of these 

 gnivBiJngdtttS'rgi^ifcfit he $rito8el£IiaCT 

 01 ^o&ide Jifruiftfc ^>ad4^lttg 1! to J '*tli^ 

 beafHrtgW a.^e^an^nw^icftf/^ 

 jew «WeiferoWri<!&$Cfe 9fey ffcfl^i&fck 

 rnotfteJtiii*o (<$e'ifiai<fe> Vttte&fi£ $9? 

 This figure, in farther elucida- 

 tion of this interesting subject, 

 we also here repeat. 

 Rd 1 1< Mr. Hewlett did flotf tk 4ti&'- 

 been already remarked, pre- 

 serve the individual wasp by 

 which the nest was fabricated, 

 and which was slain on its exit from the beehive. Under 

 these circumstances, it might be a subject of doubt what was 

 the particular species of wasp from which the nest was de- 

 rived, had not, very fortunately, a second nest, of the same 

 kind, been this spring secured, also by Mr. Hewlett, and, 

 with it, the wasp by which it had been constructed. The 



