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The best-known European species which is common in some 

 parts of Britain is the great Tailed Wasp {Sircx gigas), a very for- 

 midable-looking insect, of which the female often measures nearly 

 an inch and a half in length. 



Fig. 38. — Cimbex Luteu*. 



The general tint is black with the antennae, the sides of the 

 thorax and the legs and apex of the abdomen yellow. This 

 insect lives in pine and fir woods, and the female deposits her 



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Fir 39.— Lophryus Pini (Mag.) 



eggs in the woody parts of the trees, into which she bores to a 

 depth of over half an inch by means of her long ovipositor. 



Fig. 40. Pamphilius Faustus (Mag.) 



Another species which occurs in this country is the Sirex jitven- 

 cus, of a steel-blue colour, but smaller than the former. 



