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'J'hk Oil-bketle and tiik Sitaris. 



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Above the newly hatched gnilis (jf the Oil-heello are vvaitiiiK on the llower for a lice 

 to convey them to its nest. Just l>elo\v it a Kruh is in the liee's cell, dinning to an egj; 

 floating on honey. In anotlier cell the chrysalis is awaitinj; its final change. The 

 lower half of the picture shows similar stages in the history of the Sitaris-beetle. 



Drawn by T. CarKras, 



