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THE
CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY
EDITED BY
S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge;
Superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology
AND
A. E. SHIPLEY, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; University
Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates
VOLUME VI
[Illustration]
INSECTS
PART II. Hymenoptera _continued_ (Tubulifera and Aculeata), Coleoptera,
Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera,
Anoplura.
By David Sharp, M.A. (Cantab.), M.B. (Edinb.), F.R.S.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1899
_All rights reserved_
"Men are poor things; I don't know why the world thinks so
much of them."—_Mrs. Bee_, by L. & M. Wintle.
{v}CONTENTS
PAGE
SCHEME OF THE CLASSIFICATION ADOPTED IN THIS BOOK vii
CHAPTER I
HYMENOPTERA PETIOLATA _CONTINUED_—SERIES 2. TUBULIFERA OR
CHRYSIDIDAE.—SERIES 3. ACULEATA—GENERAL—CLASSIFICATION—
DIVISION I. ANTHOPHILA OR BEES 1