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THE SOLITARY WASPS. 



served tlie contents, tlie rate at wMch tlie spiders died. In all 

 these instances the nest had not yet been closed, as in numbers 

 four and eleven, or if closed, the egg had not hatched, show- 

 ing that the spiders could not have been stored more than two 

 or three days. Of eighty-four spiders forty-three died in from 

 two to five days while only fifteen lived from thirty to forty 

 days. 



Table No. II. Showing the length of life of sjnders found in ivasp 



nests. 



1 Nest number 1 was Pelopaeus cemeniarius. 



'This spider was so slightly injured that it moved about and moulted once. 



* Very little hurt, moved freely. 



Tabre has found the members of the genus Pelopaeiis exceed- 

 ingly unintelligent and aibsolutely lacking in rational discern- 

 ment,* but evidenoe of quite amother character is found in some 



*Aberrations de 1' Instinct, Souvenirs Entomologiques, Quatridme 

 Serie, chap. III. 



