BRITISH SOCIAL WASPS:

AN INTRODUCTION TO THEIR

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE,

AND

GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY,

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AND
THEIR NESTS.

BY

EDWARD LATHAM ORMEROD, M.D.,

CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS;
PHYSICIAN TO THE SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER.

"Neat was their house; each table, chair, and stool,
Stood in its place, or moving moved by rule;
No lively print or picture graced the room;
A plain brown paper lent its decent gloom."

CRABBE'S TALES, "The Frank Courtship."

HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.