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banded Scolia also refused the Anoxia. The 

 Philanthus, the headlong murderess of Bees, 

 saw through my trickery when I confronted 

 her with the Virgillan Bee, the Eristalis (E. 

 tenax). She, a Philanthus, take this Fly 

 for a Bee! What next! The popular 

 Idea is mistaken; antiquity too Is mistaken, 

 as witness the Georgics, which make the pu- 

 trid remains of a sacrificed Bull give birth 

 to a swarm; but the Wasp makes no mis- 

 take. In her eyes, which see farther than 

 ours, the Eristalis Is an odious DIpteron, a 

 lover of corruption, and nothing more. 



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