Figs. 336, 337, 338.—Anthophora parietina.
Fig. 339.—Carpenter Bee, Pupæ, Eggs, Galleries, and Nests.
The Anthophoras (Figs. [336], [337], 338) resemble bees, but they are more hairy, and of greyish colour. Their nest, composed of earth tempered and agglutinated with their saliva, is made in the cracks of old walls or in the ground. It has the form of a twisted tube, and is divided, by partitions, into compartments, each of which is to receive a larva. Each insect, when hatched, pierces its own wall, and profits by the hole of exit of the brother which preceded it.
