BLUE HUNTRESS 435 



wasp, but the removal of all, causes deformed legs owing to 

 the abdomen sagging upon them. 



Emergence from the cell as a perfect insect takes place 

 twenty-one days after pupation. If the parent wasp lived 

 she might witness the home building of her children thirty- 

 eight days after she deposited them as eggs in cells of her 

 own workmanship. 



