HYMENOPTERA

(Gk. hymen; marriage; pteron, a wing), an order with between 30,000 and 40,000 members, which include Saw-Flies, Gall-Flies, Ichneumon Flies, Bees, Wasps, Ants, etc., and includes the most highly developed of Insects. The name signifies that the upper and under wings on each side are ‘wedded’ or linked together in flight by a row of hooks in the latter, which catch in a hard rim of the former. H. are generally active, neat insects, with four usually transparent wings, strong mandibles, often with a ‘waist,’ the females furnished with a saw, sting, or boring or piercing ovipositor; and the larva undergoing a complete and abrupt metamorpbosts in a uming the adult ‘orm. (37° 56’ N., 23° 49’ H.), mountain, Attica, Greece; famous for its honey;