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mud wall of a cottage, the whole apartment is crammed 

 with multitudes of living and dead infedls, deftined to be 

 the food of the future progeny. Thus their houfes, like 

 the renowned caves of the giants, are ftrewed with dead. 

 This operation is no fooner over, than the parent infects 

 Hop up the hole at the entrance of the cell, to prevent 

 the efcape of fuch of the wretched captives as may yet 

 be alive. The young, when they leave their eggs, find 

 themfeives amply fupplied with provilion. They devour, 

 one after another, all the carcafes with which they are 

 provided ; and when their laft fly is eaten, they have no 

 longer occafion for food, but are changed into chryfalids, 

 which afterward become favages of one fpecies or ano- 

 ther, according to that of the parent pair *. 



Sphex femi aurata viridis f . The head, thorax, and 

 abdomen of this beautiful fpecies are of a finely gilded 

 blue ; the antennae are yellowilh ; the eyes of a gilded 

 brown, and legs of a dark blue. 



The fpirifex, or turner favage, is of a chefnut brown, 

 ■with a Ihade of blue ; the eyes are large and black ; the 

 antennae brown ; the body is ferruginous ; the thorax 

 and abdomen conneded together by a yellow thread; the 

 Wings are of a dufky brown, and the fling yellow %. 



* Reaumur, Tom, VI. mem. 9. -j- Syft, Nat. Ord, V. Gen. v, fp. JJ*- 

 ^ Barbot's Gen, Infeft.p. aj3. 



