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the cells. They are here represented. At the 

 bottom of each we shall see the Iarva3 which have 

 sprung from the eggs deposited in the manner be- 

 fore described, after the arduous and affectionate 

 labours of the parent. Then above each is a heap of 

 caterpillars, arranged 

 with beautiful neat- 

 ness, and larvae and 

 caterpillars are both 

 fast locked in their 

 prison house by the 

 firm stopping with 

 which the parent 

 wasp has closed the 

 mouth of the cells. 

 These caterpillars are 

 all alive, and are 

 rolled into a ring-like 

 form, but are so 

 chained down that ceu.qrnund.mup. 



they cannot move in the least degree. The poor 

 prisoners, like the sheep in the slaughter-yard, are 

 only waiting their turn to be killed and devoured. 

 The larva soon after it is hatched finds himself in 

 the midst of a well-stored larder, and has nothing 



