Bramble-bees and Others 



concerns the honour of effecting this reform in 

 the orthodox fashion. 



Good luck, the friend of the persevering, 

 made me acquainted In different parts of 

 Vaucluse with four Resin-bees whose singu- 

 lar trade no one had yet suspected. To-day 

 I find all four again In my own neighbour- 

 hood. They are the following: Anthidiiim 

 septemdentatiim, Latr., A. hellicosiim, Lep., 

 A. quadrilobum, Lep., and A. LatreilUi, Lep. 

 The first two make their nests in deserted 

 Snail-shells; the other two shelter their 

 groups of cells sometimes In the ground, some- 

 times under a large stone. We will first dis- 

 cuss the Inhabitants of the Snail-shell. I have 

 already made a brief reference to them 

 when speaking of the distribution of the sexes. 

 This mere allusion, suggested by a study of 

 a different kind, must now be amplified. I 

 return to it with fuller particulars. 



The stone-heaps in the Roman quarries 

 near Serignan, which I have so often visited 

 in search of the nests of the Osmla who takes 

 up her abode In the Snail-shells, supply me 

 also with the two Resin-bees installed In simi- 

 lar quarters. When the Field-mouse has left 

 behind him a rich collection of empty shells 



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