H YMENOPTERA. 



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The females of the solitary bees are impregnated like those of the 

 humble bees, and lay in spring, after having passed the winter 



Figs- 33^1 337, 338. Anthophora'parietina. 



Fi S- 339- Carpenter Bee, Pupa:, Eggs, Galleries, and Nests. 



asleep. They build a nest divided into cells, fill it with eggs, and 

 with a honied paste shut it up, and die, without having seen their 

 progeny hatched. 



