i 9 6 ORDER V. Vefpa. 



have opportunities of examining their manner 

 of living and metamorphofis. 



Schseffer fays, that the mouth of the wafp is 

 fumiflied with palpi, but does not mention the 

 tongue; the tarfi, according to him, are com- 

 pofed of five articulations. 



Scopoli fays, that the wafp has no tongue. 



Many kinds of Wafps live in focieties, after 

 the- manner of Bees, and like them make 

 combs, in which they depofit their eggs ; they 

 likewife feed their larvae with honey, but of a 

 very inferior quality to that of the Bee ; others 

 of them conftrudt a different or feparate neft for 

 each egg. 



The larvae ahd chryfalids of all of them re- 

 femble that of the Bee. 



Genus 



