The nests of this wasp are often two feet in <iepth, witli twenty-live or more tiers of comb, enclosed in walls of a 

 substance like papicr-iiuiclic, bristlinti with hard spines. Havinji re^iard for the many thousaijds of wasps such a nest 

 would contain, few animals would care to interfere with it ; but the Jaguar is said to tear it to pieces in order that it 



may feast upon the wasp-f!rubs in the combs. 



