Abstract
THIS memoir deals with North American paper-making wasps of the subfamily Vespinae. It is divided into four sections: an introduction, a morphological section, a systematic section and a biological section. The morphology is concerned with the skeletal and muscular systems of Vespula pennsylvanica. The systematic part is concerned with genera and not species, while as regards biology numerous observations are given on habits, behaviour, nest-building and life-history. An extensive bibliography is appended, but the literature is not exhaustively reviewed, since the work is in no sense claimed to be a monograph.
A Contribution to the Biology of North American Vespine Wasps
Prof.
Carl D.
Duncan
By. (Stanford University Publications, University Series: Biological Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 1.) Pp. 272 + 54 plates. (Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 15s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 657 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145657b0
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