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289. Caterpillar in rolled leaf. — Mr. R. S. Newall, 



F. R. S. '' Nature." Vol. xxi., p. 494. 



290. Wasp trailing spider. — Mr. Henry Cecil. 



" Nature." Vol. xviii., p. 3 11. 



290. Wasp hanging up its spider. '* Instincts and 



Habits of the Solitary Wasps." *' The Spider 

 Ravishers." — G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 

 The pictures of suspended spiders are also 

 taken from this chapter. 



291. '' Presently she went to look." — Ibid. 



292. " And sprawling thus." Wasps had been 



noticed before by the same observers acting 

 in this peculiar manner, after finishing a 

 nest or capturing prey, and it raised the ques- 

 tion as to whether this might be their method 

 of expressing pleasurable emotions. 



303. The round tower. ''Insect Architecture." — 

 J. Rennie. " The Library of Entertaining 

 Knowledge," Boston, I830. Reported of 

 Reaumur. 



307. Hornet hanging by one leg and eating fly. 

 ''Life History of American Insects." — 

 Clarence Moores Weed. 



