Hornell
a city in Steuben co., N.
Y., on the Canisteo river, and on the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern, and the Erie railroads: 60 miles S. of Rochester. It has important manufactures, including sash, doors, and blinds, furniture, leather, shoes, carriages, wire fencing, brick and tile, silk, veilings, gloves, and machinery. It is the seat of a free academy and Mercy Hospital, and has daily and weekly newspapers, public high school, electric lights, library, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 13,617; (1920) 15,025.
HORNET (Vespa crabro), the largest species of wasp found in Great Britain and America. The thorax is mostly black, the fore part rufous; the abdomen is yellow. The sting is very painful. The hornet is a very voracious insect, seizing and devouring bees and other insects, or carrying them to its nest to feed its young. The nest is in a hollow tree; or other sheltered place.
HOROLOGY both of which are wanting in hornet moths. a