very closely and neatly compacted together, a small 
round hole or entrance being left on one side. These 
nests are generally situated on dry shady banks in 
woods, lanes, &c. and contain the larvae or young 
animals, together with their food, which consists of 
a coarse kind of honey of a brownish color, and dis¬ 
posed in somewhat irregular masses or heaps, this 
Species not forming any angular cells or combs. 
The larvae at the time of their change to a chrysalis , 
are each enveloped in an oval case. 
It may not be improper to add, that the Bees of 
this divifion in the genus, are popularly known by 
the title of Humble-Bees, and some authors, incon¬ 
versant in natural history, have most erroneously 
imagined them, in consequence of the above name; 
to be destitute of a sting. 
