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Some Solitary Wasps of Texas. 
Arrived at the nest, the wasp opens it, enters and drags her prey 
after her. After the nest has been stored and the egg laid, the 
tunnel is closed with sand and the surface smoothed over with 
fastidious care. 
I opened two nests each of which contained six spiderlings, the 
largest in each nest having attached to its abdomen near the pedicle 
a minute egg. I did not succeed in rearing any adults for each of 
the two larvae died after having lived a larval life of five days and 
spun an incomplete cocoon. 
The nests were astonishingly small. The first had a tube two 
mm. in diameter leading slantingly downwards for a distance of 
three centimeters to a pocket measuring five mm. across. The other 
nest was dug in a small clump of dirt which was itself hardly three 
centimeters in greatest length. The nest measured but fifteen mm. 
(% inch) in length including the round pocket, five mm. in dia- 
meter, which harbored the spiders. 
Miscophus ■, though the smallest in size among the spider hunters, 
is not least in interest nor does she hold a place in my esteem pro- 
portionate to her size. 
