ioo DEL AGO A BAY. 



They seem to drink in large draughts of 

 water for the purpose of moistening the sand, 

 no doubt also adding some glutinous substance, 

 and the pot of water I always keep outside 

 my door for my cat is visited all day long by 

 a succession of these busy creatures (as well as 

 by all the fowls from the neighbouring kraals, 

 the Kafirs never supplying the poor things with 

 water). 



I have a nest made by the red- tailed wasp, 

 which is 5^ inches long, 3^ wide, and if high, 

 the hole for the escape of the young insect 

 being beautifully rounded off and finished. 



As each cell is completed an egg is laid in 

 it, and it is stored with paralysed spiders or 

 caterpillars, which form a supply of nice fresh 

 food for the larva. 



Another species (Eumenes), brown with yellow 

 markings on the abdomen, makes a very pretty 

 semi-transparent nest, resembling whitey-brown 

 paper, composed of a group of cells hanging 

 from a single stalk ; and when the insects 

 emerge from it they cluster on it and never 



