The mud-dauber, now classed as of the genus Sceliphron: Notes and Queries, 11 S. iii. 354.
1824. [He was] a sort of would-be dandy; having the bottom of his waist pinched up to the size of a quart pot, and thus resembling in shape what we call a mud wasp.—‘Old Colony Memorial’ (Plymouth), March 6.
