# The Mason-Wasps

Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66854

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Mason-Wasps+Fabre&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A wasp-like garb of black and yellow; a slender, graceful figure; wings that are not spread flat when resting, but are folded lengthwise in two; the abdomen a sort of chemist’s retort, swelling into a gourd and fastened to the thorax by a long neck which first distends into a pear and then shrinks to a thread; a leisurely and silent flight; lonely habits. There we have a summary sketch of the Eumenes. My part of the country possesses two species: the larger E. Amadei, Lep., measures nearly an inch in length; the other, E. pomiformis, Fabr., [1] is a reduction of the first to half the scale.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mason-wasps-66854/chapters/11/index.md)