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some honey (contained in its cells) and found it of an 

 agreeable sweetness, free from the pharmaceutic taste 

 which so frequently accompanies European honey. He 

 gives a detailed account of its poisonous effects on himself 

 and his two men." Afterwards he procured specimens of 

 the wasp, which was described by Latreille under the name 

 of Polistes Lecheguana. It would seem that, the nest described 

 by Mr. White agrees with that of a wasp termed Cliiguana 

 by Azara (or Lecheguana), and is very different to the slight 

 paperj" nest of the Polistes Lecheguana of Latreille. We may 

 add that M. Auguste de St. Hilaire speaks of two species of 

 wasp remarkable for storing honey in South America ; the 

 honey of one is white, of the other reddish. That the 

 habits of these honey-wasps must differ considerably from 

 those of any of our European species we may at once admit ; 

 perhaps in some points of their economy these insects may 

 approach the bee. 



