the best description; the Cetonia-grub proclaims the Two-banded Scolia and
the larva of the Anoxia announces the Interrupted Scolia.

After these exclusive ones, who disdain to vary their meals, let us mention
the eclectics, who, in a group which is generally well-defined, are able to
select among different kinds of game appropriate to their bulk. The Great
Cerceris (Cerceris tuberculata. Cf. "The Hunting Wasps": chapters 2 and 3.-
-Translator's Note.) favours above all Cleonus ophthalmicus, one of the
largest of our Weevils; but at need she accepts the other Cleoni, as well
as the kindred genera, provided that the capture be of an imposing size.
Cerceris arenaria (Cf. idem: chapter 1.--Translator's Note.) extends her
hunting-grounds farther afield: any Weevil of average dimensions is to her
a welcome capture. The Buprestis-hunting Cerceris adopts all the Buprestes
indiscriminately, so long as they are not beyond her strength. The Crowned
Philanthus (P. coronatus, FAB.) fills her underground warehouses with
Halicti chosen among the biggest. (Cf. "Bramble-bees and Others" by J.
Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chapters 12 to
14.--Translator's Note.) Much smaller than her kinswoman, Philanthus
raptor, LEP., stores away Halicti chosen among the less large species. Any
adult Acridian approaching an inch in length suits the White-banded Sphex.
The various tidae of the neighbourhood are admitted to the larder of Stizus
ruficornis and of the Mantis-hunting Tachytes on the sole condition of
being young and tender. The largest of our Bembeces (B. rostrata, FAB., and
B. bidentata, VAN DER LIND (For the Rostrate Bembex and the Two-pronged
Bembex, cf. "The Hunting Wasps": chapter 14.--Translator's Note.)) are
eager consumers of Gad-flies. With these chief dishes they associate
relishes levied indifferently from the rest of the Fly clan. The Sandy
Ammophila (A. sabulosa, VAN DER LIND (Cf. idem: chapter 13.--Translator's
Note.)) and the Hairy Ammophila (A. hirsuta, KIRB.) cram into each burrow a
single but corpulent caterpillar, always of the Moth tribe and varying