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the Melitlohia , named thus from its preying upon bees; 
it, like the majority of its tribe, is exceedingly minute, 
and of a shining dark green metallic colour. It is pe¬ 
culiar from having its lateral eyes simple, and in possess¬ 
ing besides three ocelli. The other genus is Monodonto- 
meris, an equally small insect, which, although living 
upon the larva of Anthophora, is equally preyed upon by 
that of the Melittohia. The universal scourge, Forficula, 
is a great devastator of these colonies, where, of course, 
it revels in its destructive propensities. 
The insects of the second division I have never been 
able to track to their burrows, but have always caught 
them either on the wing or on flowers, especially upon 
those of the common Mallow, and I have found both spe¬ 
cies all round London. They are said also to frequent the 
Dead Nettle ( Lamium purpureum) . The A. quadrima- 
culata burrows in banks, and its processes are scarcely 
different from those of the preceding species, only its 
habits are solitary. In flight it is exceedingly rapid, 
and thus much resembles Saropoda. But the A. furcata 
bores into putrescent wood, in which it forms a longi¬ 
tudinal pipe subdivided into nine or ten oval divisions, 
separated from each other by agglutinated scrapings of 
the same material, very much masticated, the closing of 
each forming a sharp sort of cornice ; each of these cells 
is about half an inch in length, and three-tenths of an 
inch in diameter, the separations between them being 
about a line thick. These pipes or cylinders run parallel 
to the sides of the wood thus bored, an angle being 
made both at its commencement and its termination, 
and thus the latter permits the ready escape of the de¬ 
veloped imago nearest that extremity, which being the 
first deposited, that cell being the first constructed, it 
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