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MORE HUNTING WASPS
By J. Henri Fabre
Translated By Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, F. Z. S.
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
The fourteen chapters contained in this volume complete the list of
essays in the "Souvenirs entomologiques" devoted to Wasps. The remainder
will be found in the two earlier volumes of this collected edition
entitled "The Hunting Wasps" and the "Mason-wasps" respectively.
Chapter 2 has appeared before in my version of "The Life and Love of
the Insect," an illustrated volume of extracts translated by myself and
published by Messrs. Adam and Charles Black (in America by the Macmillan
Co.), and Chapter 10 in a similar miscellany translated by Mr. Bernard
Miall published by Messrs. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. (in America by the
Century Co.) under the title of "Social Life in the Insect World." These
two chapters are included in the present book by arrangement with the
original firms.
I wish to place on record my thanks to Mr. Miall for the valuable
assistance which he has given me in preparing this translation.
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS.
Ventnor, I. W., 6 December, 1920.
CONTENTS.
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
CHAPTER 1. THE POMPILI.
CHAPTER 2. THE SCOLIAE.
CHAPTER 3. A DANGEROUS DIET.
CHAPTER 4. THE CETONIA-LARVA.
CHAPTER 5. THE PROBLEM OF THE SCOLIAE.
CHAPTER 6. THE TACHYTES.
CHAPTER 7. CHANGE OF DIET.
CHAPTER 8. A DIG AT THE EVOLUTIONISTS.
CHAPTER 9. RATIONING ACCORDING TO SEX.
CHAPTER 10. THE BEE-EATING PHILANTHUS.
CHAPTER 11. THE METHOD OF THE AMMOPHILAE.
CHAPTER 12. THE METHOD OF THE SCOLIAE.
CHAPTER 13. THE METHOD OF THE CALICURGI.
CHAPTER 14. OBJECTIONS AND REJOINDERS.
INDEX.
CHAPTER 1. THE POMPILI.
(This essay should be read in conjunction with that on the Black-bellied
Tarantula. Cf. "The Life of the Spider," by J. Henri Fabre, translated
by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chapter 1.--Translator's Note.)
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