HAVING EYES, THEY SEE. 



ALTHOUGH the Vespae have formed 

 violent attachments to most of 

 us at one time or another, so that we may 

 consider ourselves fairly well acquainted 

 with them, our attention has been mainly 

 directed to their sting end and to their 

 general personal appearance. 



We know Vespa, but few of us have 

 given much thought to her eyes, though 

 those bright orbs were no doubt respon- 

 sible for the success with which she at- 

 tached herself without invitation to our 

 persons. 



Besides the two compound eyes with 

 which we are all familiar she has a group 

 of three simple ones, which she, like the 

 Cyclops, wears in the middle of her fore- 

 head, but which by no means afford her 



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