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FURTHER NOTES ON A SOLITARY WASP 
(Odynerus parietum, Linn.). 
WwW. M. EGGEESTONE, 
Stanhope, Co. Durham. 
I READ with some interest Dr. George’s ‘Notes on a Solitary 
Wasp’ in the January number of the Waturalzst, 1906, as I had 
a little experience with one of these interesting creatures during 
the same year. 
On the 17th of August, 1905, I saw a Solitary Wasp on one 
of the gate posts at the entrance to the offices of the Weardale 
Rural District Council at Stanhope, but on my nearer approach 
it made off. 
This entrance consists of an iron gate and two cut freestone 
square pillars or posts, the columns of which, between the base 
plinth and the moulded capitals, are square, and have, on the 
front face, a panel formed by a sunk or incised line three- 
quarters of an inch wide and half an inch deep running up each 
side and across the top and bottom of the column. Thinking 
the black wasp I saw had some business on hand I examined 
the pillars and found on one of them two pairs of nests, built of 
mud and fixed in the angle of the incised line above mentioned, 
The cells are seen below the ‘ X’ in the illustration. 
Naturalist, 
