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to the left the Red-tailed or Lapidary Humble Bee, Bomlus la- 

 pidarius, revelling iu polleii, and to the right is the small Cabbage But- 

 terfly, Pontia Rapes ; in the suspended case of spirally-rolled leaves is 

 a smaller Caterpillar, and above are two long-horned Japan Moths, Adela 

 De Geerella, communicating by antenna! language 190 



The passions are expressed by sounds. 



A sentimental Grasshopper performing his moonlight serenade, "whilst his 

 ladye love directs her listening antennae to the quarter whence the 

 strains proceed. The light guitar furnished to the amative Gryllus 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 

 nature's bidding 213 



13. A DEFENCE OF WASPS. 



fn the centre is the common Humble Bee, Bombus /r/'/v.sY/vs, collecting pol- 

 len from the Palm "Willow ; to the right is a large female Wasp, Vespa 

 vulgar /s, a winter survivor and foundress of a new colony, rasping wood 

 as material for her nest, and to the left is another individual of the 

 same, in flight, descending to the bank in which she has formed her 

 burrow 214 



A widowed winter -survivor. 



Tort rait 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 231 



Sprft. 



H. 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 a swarm . . 232 



The aged Professor of the Mesmeric art. 



A youthful Queen-Bee under the benevolising operation of a mesmerising 

 Nurse-worker of her race, a practitioner iu Phreiio-magnetism : an 



