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ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE 



F4CINQ FAOB 



20. Honey-bees Comb-building . 



21. Humble-bees' Nest 



22. The Raw Material of Wasp-paper 



23. Comb of Wasp .... 



24. Strange Portable Houses . 



25. Two Tailors .... 



26. Caddis-fly and Caddis-cases 



27. The Agricultural Ant's Clearing 



28. Nest of the Agricultural Ant . 



29. Mushroom-growing Ants 



30. Termites' Mushroom Garden 



31. Sextons . . . . 



32. The Bacon Beetle 



33. Bee-like Drone-fly — Girdled Drone- 



34. The Cicada's Music-box 



35. Great Green Grasshopper . 



36. The Flying Gooseberry 



37. A Katydid ..... 



38. Two Ichneumon-wasps . 



39. The Oil-beetle and the Sitaris . 



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