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She uses her fore legs like hands, to pass the load of dirt to her hind legs, and then runs backward out of her hole to dump it down behind her. Mr. Emerton tells me that he never saw a bee in the act of digging but once, and then she left off after a few strokes. He also says, "they are harmless and inoffensive.
These two leaves are supported upon a framework of tracheal tubes. In the cut given above, Mr. Emerton has faithfully represented these modified trachæ, which end in hairs projecting externally. Thus the inside of this broad fleshy expansion is rough like a rasp, and as Newport states, "is easily employed by the insect in scraping or tearing delicate surfaces.
The beetle lies in wait for its prey in shallow pits excavated in pastures. It is remarkable for discharging with quite an explosion from the end of its body a pungent fluid, probably as a protection against its enemies. The former is black, while the latter is a pretty insect, greenish, with purplish-red wing-covers, and black legs. J. H. Emerton under a stone early in spring. Dr.
These young were probably the offspring of several females, as four mature bees were found in the hole." The larva of an English species hatches in ten days after the eggs are laid. Another brood of bees appeared the middle of September, as on the ninth of that month Mr. Emerton found several holes of the same species of bee, made in a hard gravel road near the turnpike.
The Halictus parallelus excavates cells almost exactly like those of Andrena; but since the bee is smaller, the holes are smaller, though as deep. Mr. Emerton found one nest in a path a foot in depth. Another nest, discovered September 9th, was about six inches deep. The cells are in form like those of Andrena, and like them, are glazed within.
See Emerton, Introduction to the Middle Ages, pp. 79-81, for excellent explanation of mediaeval methods of trial. S.B. Harding, The Story of the Middle Ages, especially the chapters describing life in castle, life in village, and life in monastery. Eva March Tappan, European Hero Stories, especially the topic, Life in Middle Ages, p. 118, the Crusades, p. 136, and Winning the Magna Charta, p. 111.
He has, however, found two specimens of Nomada, sexfasciata in the cells of the long-horned bee, Eucera longicornis. He also states, that while some species are constant in their attacks on certain Halicti and Andrenæ, others attack different species of these genera indiscriminately. The observations of Mr. Emerton enable us still further to clear up the history of this obscure visitor.
At length, after a consultation of the doctors, it was proposed that he should be consigned to the workhouse infirmary. "We can't keep him here forever," said Dr. Emerton; "and as all the beds will be wanted with this outbreak of diphtheria, I see nothing else to be done." "Well," said Dr.
II . For the spirit of early humanism see H. C. Hollway-Calthrop, Petrarch: his Life and Times ; J. H. Robinson and H. W. Rolfe, Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, 2d ed. , a selection from Petrarch's letters to Boccaccio and other contemporaries, translated into English, with a valuable introduction; Pierre de Nolhac, Petrarque et l'humanisme, 2d ed., 2 vols. in 1 . Of the antecedents of humanism a convenient summary is presented by Louise Loomis, Mediaeval Hellenism . A popular biography of Erasmus is that of Ephraim Emerton, Desiderius Erasmus ; the Latin Letters of Erasmus are now in course of publication by P. S. Allen; F. M. Nichols, The Epistles of Erasmus, 2 vols.
The Syrphus fly, or Aphis eater, deserves more than the passing notice which we bestow upon it. It frequents flowers. Larva of Rat-tailed Fly. 78. We will not describe at length the fly, as the admirable drawings of Mr. Emerton cannot fail to render it easily recognizable.
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