THE

CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY

EDITED BY Sidney Frederic S. F. (HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ;

Superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology

AND

Arthur Everett
A. E. SHIPLEY, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge ;

University Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates

VOLUME VI

PART II. Hymenoptera continued (Tubulifera and Aculeata), Coleoptera,

Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, Thysanoptera,
Hemiptera, Anoplura.

London
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NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1899

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“Men are poor things; I don't know why the world thinks so much of them.”—Mrs. Bee, by L. & M. Wintle.

CONTENTS

PAGE

SCHEME OF THE CLASSIFICATION ADOPTED IN THIS BOOK

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CHAPTER I

HYMENOPTERA PETIOLATA CONTINUED-SERIES 2. TUBULIFERA OR CHRYSI-

DIDAE.-SERIES 3. ACULEATA-GENERAL- CLASSIFICATION-DIVISION I.

ANTHOPHILA OR BEES

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CHAPTER II

HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA CONTINUED-DIVISION II. DIPLOPTERA OR WASPS

-EUMENIDAE, SOLITARY TRUE WASPS — V'ESPIDAE, SOCIAL WASPS-

MASARIDAE

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CHAPTER III

OR

HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA CONTINUED - DIVISION III. FossOP.ES

FossORIAL SOLITARY WASPS — FAMILY SCOLIIDAE OR SUBTERRANEAN

FossoRES-FAMILY POMPILIDAE OR RUNNERS — FAMILY SPHEGIDAE OR

PERFECT-STINGERS

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