vi CONTENTS. 
to the left the Red-tailed or Lapidary Humble Bee, Boméus (a- 
pidarius, revelling in pollen, and to the right is the small Cabbage But- 
terfly, Pontia Rape ; in the suspended case of spirally-rolled leaves is 
asmaller Caterpillar, and above are two long-horned Japan Moths, ddela 
De Geerelia, communicating by antennal language . . . . - - 190 
The passions are expressed by sounds, 
A sentimental Grasshopper performing his moonlight serenade, whilst his 
ladye love directs her listening antennee to the quarter whence the 
strains proceed. The light guitar fernished to the amative Gry//us by 
Fancy, ranks not more properly as an instrument of music, than does 
that organ of sweet sounds, the gift of nature, which he plays on at 
weet ee tae, 8 
13. 4 DEFENCE OF WASPS. 
In the centre is the common Humble Bee, Bombus terrestris, collecting pol- 
len from the Palm Willow ; to the right is a large female Wasp, Vespa 
vulgaris, a winter survivor and foundress of a new colony, rasping wood 
as material for her nest, and to the left is another indiviiual of the 
same, in flight, descending to the bank in which she has formed her 
We a es ee 
A widowed winter-survivor. 
Portrait of a notable insect character, a widowed Wasp, one of the few forlorn 
winter-survivors of a populous summer colony, and the destined foundress 
of a future spring settlement, weeping over the remains of a defunct 
partner, deposited in an acorn-shell . . . . . . 1... ~~ 281 
April. 
14, THE ROYAL REFORM,—BEES AS A BODY POLITIC. 
‘Two workers and a Drone of the domestic Bee, Apis mellifica, gathering 
honey from the nectar-yielding Broom and Wild Thyme, with the 
Queen Bee above and in the distance, as conductor of aswarm . . 232 
The aged Professor of the Mesmevie art. 
A youthful Queen-Bee under the benevolising operation of a mesmerising ‘‘ 
- Nurse-worker of her race, a practitioner in Phreno-magnetism ;—an 
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