■The savage. 
Sot 
mud wall of a cottage, the whole apartment is crammed 
with multitudes of living and dead infedls, deftined to be 
the food of the future progeny. Thus their houfes, like 
the renowned caves of the giants, are ftrewed with dead. 
This operation is no fooner over, than the parent infers 
Hop up the hole at the entrance of the cell, to prevent 
the efcape of fuch of the wretched captives as may yet 
be alive. The young, when they leave their eggs, find 
themfeives amply fupplied with provifion. They devour, 
one after another, all the carcafes with which they are 
provided ; and when their laft fly is eaten, they have no 
longer occafion for food, but are changed into chryfalids, 
which afterward become favages of one fpecies or ano- 
ther, according to that of the parent pair *. 
Sphex femi aurata viridis f. The head, thorax, and 
abdomen of this beautiful fpecies are of a finely gilded 
blue ; the antennte are yellowilh ; the eyes of a gilded 
brown, and legs of a dark blue. 
The fpirifex, or turner favage, is of a chefnut brown, 
w ith a fhade of blue ; the eyes are large and black ; the 
antennas brown ; the body is ferruginous ; the thorax 
and abdomen conneded together by a yellow thread; the 
wings are of a dufky brown, and the fling yellow %. 
* Reaumur Tom. VI mem. 9 . f S y ft > Nat - 0r <b V ' Gciu v ' f P’ 35’ 
\ Bsirbnt’s Gen. Inled. p. 3. 
