202 LIFE STORIES OF AUSTRALIAN INSECTS. 



the upper normal half of the nest. Then they 

 used the paper of the lower nest to work up and 

 enlarge the cells of the growing larvae above. The 

 new clean rim could be seen on the renovated cells. 

 They lived for months in this nest, feeding the 

 larvae and working about the nest. At last some 

 died, and we set free the remainder of adults, put- 

 ting the larvae into spirits to preserve them. (Taken 

 from the "Australian Naturalist" Observations by 

 M. N. Brewster.) 



