_ By Frank Morton Jones, Wilmington, Del. 
¢ BN en, chee Mack. chocoret basally with oli 
brown hairs and more or less heavily overlaid with golden- Sow Beser hs} 
‘Disca ee” ve 8e promincet: on secondaries, absent 
y faintly indicated. Transverse posterior line yellow, clearly de- 
fin 1 eriorly, outwardly fading into a broad, powdery golden-brown 
area. Secondaries beneath with no light line; purplish-red, with no 
ery sles to typical engulifera above; the discal marks yellow, 
Sbsolete on secondaries. Beneath, the black transverse lines of 
from fourteen males and ten females from Berke- 
, South Carolina. 
din * 
a 7 By M. Tanpy, Dallas City, Ill. 
om During the summer of 1907 it was my good fortune to come 
ae in possession of a very interesting and rare specimen of the 
Rag t containing the live pupae of the Carpenter Mud Wasp. 
nd this insect selects some partly decayed board in 
¥ to excavate its tunnel for a nest, which is usually several 
" inches in depth, and partitioned off into cells about one inch 
i. each, in which are stored spiders ; and one egg deposited in 
“3 each cell. 
Now this particular insect, the subject of this sketch, seemed 
: to be of different mind from the rest of its kind, as is ex- 
3 oe manufactured mater- 
ul for its domicile. 
it had caught the spirit of the age of progress and 
invention, and responded to some mysterious and inexplicable 
desire to better its condition, to provide a newer if not more 
fashionable home, or it never would have invaded a sash and 
door factory to provide for the same, and select the best of 
finishing lumber—a block of cypress, which had been discarded 
in the manufacture of window frames—dressed on both sides 
and with a groove in the under side, as it reposed upon a lum- 
ber pile. On its upper side were six small partly decayed 
set 
