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wonderfully changed, for there is iiot the smallest 
vestige of the old form remaining; yet it must be 
the same materials, for now nothing is taken in. 
How far this change is only the old parts new 
modelled, or gradually altering their form, is not 
easily determined. To bring about the change, 
many parts must be removed, out of which the 
new ones are probably formed. As bees are not 
different in this state from the common flying 
insects in general, 1 shall not pursue the subject 
of their changes further; although it makes a very 
material part in the natural history of insects. 
AVhen the chrysalis is formed into the com- 
plete bee, it then destroj^s the covering of its cell, 
and comes forth. The time it continues in this 
state is easier ascertained than either in that of 
the egg, or the maggot; for the bees cannot move 
the chrysalis, as they do the two others. In one 
instance it was thirteen days and twelve hours 
exactly; so that an egg in hatching being five 
days, the age of the maggot being four days, and 
the chrysalis continuing thirteen and a half, the 
whole makes twenty-two days and a half : but 
how far this is accurate, I will not pretend to say. 
I found that the chrysalis of a male was fourteen 
days, but this was probably accidental. When 
they first come out, they are of a greyish colour, 
but soon turn brown. 
•, “ When the swarm of which I have hitherto 
been giving the history has come off early, and is 
a large one, more especially if it was put into too 
small a hive, it often breeds too many for the hive 
