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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL [April, 1887. 
dependency. On returning to the spot on the next day at 7:30 
a. m., we found them just removing the last body, all the others 
having been cut away and carried off. 
A few days later we saw a wasp (V. vidua) settle over a dead 
grasshopper. While it was cutting off one of the large legs we 
snipped off a piece of its wing. In four minutes the leg was 
earned away; ten minutes later the wasp returned to the grass¬ 
hopper It began to cut off the head but after working a few mo¬ 
ments flew away and hawked about near the ground for four or 
five minutes. It then returned to the grasshopper and began to 
cut off a wing but after a little flew away again. It worked in 
this way for over an hour accomplishing nothing. After having 
elo le iT 7 Per f ° r " minUte ° r two the wasp seemed to 
ecollect it and came back with a rush. The next day the mss- 
theTJr Stm °Y he SPOi Evid “^ »■>!> S z 
We have frequently seen individuals of V gernnnica and V 
vidua cutting up insects and carrying nJt " ' 
nevpr Qtw fiao a i . carrying portions away, but we 
berilttl h„ t “ ke f ‘ h “ r »p into a tree before dismea- 
bermg „ „ hornet, of the specie, V. maculate usually do 
probable I d t ° f the f°°d of map. if seem. 
abundant they live abLostlntiT"” 1 m ° nUls ’ "' bile '““i 3 “ 
never found them lre ^ U ^° n an ^ ma l diet. We have 
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r ioi. jertnes Wyman m a paner “ n™ u n t 
Species of HornPt \ , . , 1 ^pei (Jn the Habits of a 
which I have made show their carni 1 GW ex P enraents 
not manifest the same tendencies to Pr ° pensities but do 
are said to be so common in th P • * SUgar and fruits which 
which was placed near the put SpeCles of Eur °pe- Some sugar 
and was eventually carried awa^th!* “ 0t touched b ? them 
lested. Fruit was also left without 1 ant8 ’ Wh ° Wer ® not m0 ‘ 
Insects thrown down near tho i i <Ung eaten by the hornets. 
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