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mately 95 cells. Eggs were present in nearly all of these, attached to 
sides of the cells just above the base. 
The adults taken numbered 48, and three wasps escaped. Of the 
captured wasps, five were queens and 42 workers. One wasp was 
classified as intermediate, with an ovariole index of 1 but no devel- 
oped eggs. It was our impression that its oocytes were degenerate, 
and we included it with the workers in the statistical analyses. Mor- 
phometric measurements included maximum width of metasomal 
tergum II as well as length of the discal cell. These were found to be 
significantly correlated with each other (all N = 48, r = .4 1 0, 
p<.01), and with ovariole index (r=.375 for tergal width and .499 
for discal cell length, all p<.01). Hamulus number was not corre- 
lated with the morphometric measures (r =.072 for tergal width and 
—.082 for discal cell length) or ovariole index (r=.198). The queens 
were found to be significantly larger than the workers in both tergal 
width (mean = 2.49 mm versus 2.40; t = 4.350, p<.002) and discal 
cell length (mean = 4.91 mm versus 4.66; t = 4.322, p<.004). They 
did not differ in hamulus number (t = —1 .662). 
Richards and Richards (1951) studied four colonies of this spe- 
cies. They compared eight queens and eight workers (presumably 
determined solely by ovarian development) for five morphometric 
characters, and found no differences. Width of tergum II was not 
among these characters. They compared average wing length and 
hamulus number for ten queens and 33 workers, and found no 
differences. Their sample sizes were v smaller than ours, and drawn 
from colonies in several stages of development (e.g. two colonies 
had two combs, and one of these had males). The fact that our 
colony had a larger number of workers than any of the colonies they 
studied, but a brood consisting entirely of eggs, suggests that this 
colony was the recent product of a swarm. This is supported by the 
incomplete envelope of our colony. Therefore the larger size of 
queens found by us may be characteristic of recently initiated colo- 
nies of this species, and not necessarily mature colonies. 
Braehygastra seutellaris: 
One colony of this species (82-02-1 1-1) was collected at Voltz- 
berg Camp on February 1 1. It was on a branch tip of small Clusia 
tree on the granite outcrop near the camp. The nest was about 1 .65 
m high and readily visible. In general appearance it was of much the 
same form as Figs. 7 and 8 of Richards and Richards (1951). The 
