48S Hl'MENCPTEROUS INSECTS, 



CHAPTER VL 



Order 'V.-—Hymenopterous InfeBs, 



1 HIS order contains all the bees, hornets, wafps, and 

 ichneumons, infefts which are dillinguiftied from thofe 

 which we have already reviewed, by pofTeffing a fting, 

 and four membranous wings. Some of them the induftrj 

 of man has turned to advantage, by reducing them into a 

 domeflic Hate, while the greater part Hill remain the free 

 fervants of nature, and may be regarded among the moft 

 inveterate enemies which men have to dread among this 

 race of animals. 



