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laid it under a tumbler, when the delicate insect 
tumbled about till it died of exhaustion in a few hours. 
It appears, then, that the larvee are hatched during the 
dle or last of June from eggs fertilized in April. 
then crawl out on to the body of the bee, on which 
transported to the nest, when they enter, according to 
observations, the body of the larva, on whose fatty 
they feed. Previous to changing to a pupa, the la 
with its head turned towards that of its host, but 
assuming the perfect state (which they do in the 
mer or autumn) they must reverse their positi 
female protrudes the front part of its body between 
ments of the abdomen of her host, as represented | l 
figure. This change, Newport thinks, takes place a 
sahioah has undergone its metamorphoses, though | a 
does not leave her earthen cells until the following £ 
While the male Stylops deserts its host, his wingless 
is imprisoned during her whole life within her host, 
immediately after giving birth to her myriad (f 
thinks she roča over 2000 young) offspring- 
Xenos Peckii, an allied insect, was discovered 
to be parasitic in the body of wasps, and the 
known to be several species of this small but curious 
Stylopidæ, which are known to live parasiti 
bodies of our wild bees and wasps. The pres 
parasites which live on the fatty parts finally 
host, so that the sterile female bee dies prematu 
As in the higher animals bees are afflicted ¥ 
worms which induce disease and sometimes death. 
known hair-worm, Gordius, is an insect-pa 
form is about the size of a thick honsedialaill 
moist soil and in pools. It lays, according to Dr. 
lions of eggs connected together in long cords. 
scopic tadpole-shaped young penetrate into the 
sects frequenting damp localities. Fairly escon® 
body of their unsuspecting host, they huxuriate on} 
