More Hunting Wasps 



never any other, however closely various 

 other kinds of game resemble the Bee in 

 quality. If, therefore, when exploring sunny 

 banks, you find beneath the soil a small parcel 

 of mutilated Bees, that will be enough to 

 point to the existence of a local colony of 

 Philanthus apivorus. She alone knows the 

 recipe for making potted Bee-meat. The 

 Crioceris was but now teaching us all about 

 the lily family; and here the mildewed body 

 of the Bee tells us of the Philanthus and her 

 lair. 



Similarly the female Ephippiger helps us 

 to identify the Languedocian Sphex: her 

 relics, the cymbals and the long sabre, are 

 the unmistakable sign of the cocoon to which 

 they adhere. The black Cricket, with his 

 red-braided thighs, is the infallible label of 

 the Yellow-winged Sphex; the larva of 

 Oryctes nasicornis tells us of the Garden 

 Scolia as certainly as the best description; 

 the Cetonia-grub proclaims the Two-banded 

 Scolia and the larva of the Anoxia an- 

 nounces the Interrupted Scolia. 



After these exclusive ones, who disdain to 

 vary their meals, let us mention the eclectics, 

 who, in a group which is generally well- 

 defined, are able to select among different 

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