AN ISLAND SETTLEMENT 



left in this position for two days, during which time 

 Bembex learned to regard it as a landmark, for upon 

 its being removed to a distance of eight inches she still 







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followed it upon returning with her fly, and insisted 

 upon finding her nest near it. 



An observation of Marchand points to the same con- 

 clusion. He says: — 



On July seventeenth, 1900, .during a short sojourn at 

 Pouliguen, on returning from a hunt after Diptera and Hy- 

 menoptera in the cliffs of Caudan, about eleven in the 

 morning, in tropical heat, I paused to take breath near 

 the old mill of Caudan and looked about for a little shade 



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