NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1919

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Copyright, 1919
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

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CONTENTS

PAGE
[TRANSLATOR’S NOTE] v
CHAPTER
I [THE EUMENES] 1
II [THE ODYNERI] 28
III [THE PELOPÆUS] 60
IV [THE AGENIÆ; THE PELOPÆUS’ VICTUALS] 84
V [ABERRATIONS OF INSTINCT] 106
VI [THE SWALLOW AND THE SPARROW] 133
VII [INSTINCT AND DISCERNMENT] 155
VIII [THE NEST-BUILDING ODYNERUS] 176
IX [INSECT GEOMETRY] 219
X [THE COMMON WASP] 240
XI [THE COMMON WASP (continued)] 270
XII [THE VOLUCELLA] 288
[INDEX] 313

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TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

This is the second volume on Wasps in the Collected Edition of Fabre’s Souvenirs entomologiques. The first of these was The Hunting Wasps; and the present volume is somewhat wilfully entitled, for all Wasps hunt in varying degrees, if not on their own behalf, at least on that of their young. My object, however, was to bring together all the essays treating of those Wasps who actually build homes or nests, as distinct from burrows. The last book on Wasps will be called More Hunting Wasps and will be issued towards the end of the series.