The Odyneri 



the back I find six.^ Thanks to this in- 

 equality of width, the cell comprises two 

 apartments: the provision-store in front and 

 the dining-room behind. The Eumenes' 

 spacious cupola does not permit of this ar- 

 rangement; there the game is heaped up in 

 disorder, the oldest in date promiscuously 

 with the most recent; and each piece is 

 merely bent, not rolled. The ascending- 

 sheath provides a remedy for the disad- 

 vantages of this confusion. 



Note also that the packing of the victuals 

 is not the same from one end of the 

 Odynerus' skewerful to the other. In the 

 cells whose provisions have not yet or have 

 only recently been broached, I observe this 

 detail: near the egg or the newly-hatched 

 larva, in the part which I have just described 

 as the dining-room, the space is not fully 

 occupied; there are just a few grubs here, 

 three or four, somewhat isolated from the 

 bulk and leaving enough room to ensure the 

 safety of either the egg or the young larva. 

 This is the food supplied for the early 

 meals. If there be danger in the first 

 mouthfuls, which are the most risky of all, 

 the life-line provides a means of with- 

 drawal. More towards the front, the game 



1 .234 inch. — Translator's Note. 



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