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The same species as that shown on page 209 is here engaged in hauling the caterpillar of a moth— nianv times her own 

 spot she has selected for mining. She always captures her prey before digging the shaft and the cell that' is to contain it. 

 is stung, and a single egg laid upon it ; then the shaft is carefully tilled up. 



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[Harold Bastiit. 



weight — to the 

 The caterpillar 



