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to be annoyed, she throws the sting rapidly into 

 the animal that 

 annoys her, and 

 injects the fluid 

 with the formic 

 acid in it. In 

 No. 15 the darts 

 are shown still 

 more highly mag- 

 nified. In the 

 queen wasp, the 

 sting is used both 

 for laying eggs 

 and as a weapon 

 of offence ; but 

 in the workers, 

 which cannot lay 

 eggs, it is entirely 

 devoted to the 

 work of fighting. 

 Two other little 

 peculiarities of 

 the wasp, how- 



r NO. 1 6. WASPS BRUSH 



ever, deserve a AND COMB, FOR CLEAN- 

 final word of re- ING ANTENNAE. 

 cognition. One 



of these is the elaborate brush-and- 

 comb apparatus or antennae-cleaner, 



o drawn in a ve ^ enlar g ed view in 

 METERS. No. 1 6. Whatever the sense may 



be which the antennas serve, we may 

 at least be certain that it is one of great import- 



