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, uncompleted, the edl last --t™"* f "^"^ „,,1 between it ' 
,j tbe wall of elay that was to ser'e a. M« y " g_^^^ 
,Lceediogone.haathewa,phvedtoc„mpe^h r ^^^ ^^,_ 
. protected cells are those *°- ^^^^''^ j'* \.,,„<„,<. having 
„. I ouce touud satisfactory ev>deKe »' ^ tte wasp 
,ed through half.an-iucK of the clay ^^^^^^^^ „Hh 
„e of these cells. The paras.te was '" "- ^" ' ,,t,,uce,- 
rt bought dow. iuto it by '"«--™";"„; ;;T„ge euough for 
,ge too small for the -^^^''^Xl^lZo^.eLn^^^ egg, 
f . aud in the cell thus reached by 1»" « _^,;^t,a on a 
y deposited. On another occasion, - ^„ ^''' "'; ^„f„^ ,„,„„„, 
[was examining, and where I had Pa . I'y P - ,,^,„ ,;th her 
sfinipes: she commenced to carefully mvesfg ^^^ 
.ulaLnowandthentoscrat^awaysomeear^^ J^^^^^ ^^^ 
. she did not, however, deposit any egg, P 
- of the cocoons w.e not in PJP-J— ,,^^ , „«en to he 
When a cocoon contains egg. ^1^^ „^,. 
d,at its npper end, a m.nn e 7^';;^'^*^™tes, this; aperture 
tor of the Okr,sis has been '!>-' I ;* "'^f^/^ ,;„,;y,; ,ad not 
anting, simply, I believe ^'^--wXosited her eggs within 
. .pinning her cocoon ^J.^/;;^^:!! „u tbe yellow silken 
There is nearly always a ™»" «?" ^ -^ ^rst with lior 
of the cocoon, as if the 0%.« had ''"^^^^ ^ tto mark 
s; and those containing a.*-^^^^^^^^ 
la a number of cocoons of the Odyneiu ^^^ 
points of their ^^^^^ ^^^i^^^^^X ^'.,. in from si. 
, only in the cocoon of the Odjne, »», „articular posi- 
'ten eggs. These do not appear to be pl-* -«! 1 _^^^P^^^ 
u, bufsimply fall on the ^•^'^"^^^l^t^ eTp-ially when its 
,y obviate the destruction caused ''^ ^^ '"j; ; J ,,,;uuing opera- 
iments are still active before the compb, lo of .t^ n^^J^ ^_^ ^^^ 
,u,. In the instance above '^''^■^"^^^^^^ „„„t,;„ed five eggs in 
„row of O. vinipes, the cocoon f he atte ^^ ^^^ ^^ 
,„a condition. The wasp larva "^ .7;^ '"^^^^.ues soon after 
„unk to those smaller dimensions wbh it r pifly ^^ 
,at period. In various other "— J j^l, „f ,,„,. four to 
7. lidentata. but often only one. the shr.veUe 
. , „,ers being found -* -;•:- ^^.X.^: - -« eel, . 
evidence of the hatclnag of two eg,s 
