Plate 39 The Oil-beetle and the Sitaru 



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Above the newly hatched grubs oi the Oil-beetle are waiting on the flower foi .1 1 ee 

 to convey them to its nest. Just below it a grub is in the bee's cell, clinging to an egg 

 floating on honey. In another cell the chrysalis is awaiting its final change. 1 h< 

 lower hall oJ the picture shows similar stages in the history of the Sitaris-beetle. 



Drzu:'. lv T. Carr;ra*. 



