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It is often feen iftuing from fuch holes, where it 
ne files and performs its work : it is called framing 
chrysis , from its fplendor. 
GENUS 7.—VESPA, WASP. 
Many kinds of wafps live in focieties, after the 
manner of bees, and like them make combs, in 
which they depofit their eggs; they likewife feed 
their larvae with honey, but of a very inferior qua¬ 
lity to that of the bee ; [others of them conftruft a 
different feparate neft for each egg. 
The larvae and chryfalids of all of them refemble 
thofe of the bee. 
Vespa Crabro, the Hornet. 
This large fpecies of wafp makes its neft in 
the trunks of hollow trees, and in the timber* work 
of lofts ; its cakes or combs are compofed of a fub- 
fiance like coarfe paper, or rufty parchment* It is 
very voracious, devouring other infefls, and even 
bees. 
A diflinguifning chara&er of this genus of flies, 
is their bodies being fmooth and apparently without 
hairs ; their upper wings, when at reft, are folded 
in two, the whole length of them. At the rife of 
each of thofe wings is fituated a fcaly part, which 
pei forms the office of a fprmg, to hinder the upper 
wing from rifing too high in the flapping of their 
wings \ a caution very important to thofe carnivo- 
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