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to bathe itself in the pollen of dahlias at Landour. (The specimen 

 is so saturated with grease as to be undeterminable.) 



He had captured a Cetoniideous insect, which he regarded as the 

 female of Heterorhina Hopei, and which was no other than H. Ben- 

 galensis, as out of hundreds of H. Hopei which he had seen and 

 taken there was not one female, whereas all the specimens oiH. Ben- 

 galensis proved to be of that sex ; the species should therefore take 

 the name of the male, Bengalensis being inapplicable to a hill-spe- 

 cies. The wild indigo is a favourite resort of this species and 

 of H. nigritarsis, as well as of a coppery Cetonia. H. glaberrima, 

 Westw., frequents sweating wounds in oaks in great profusion, and is 

 accompanied more sparingly by Rhomborhina opalina and R. apicalis. 

 Jumnos Roylii is abundant in the hollows of oaks, and is frequently 

 taken in flight. A species of Cetonia of a velvet-black colour, with 

 a red band round the thorax and a pale golden spot on each elytron, 

 without any visible external difference between the sexes, somewhat 

 resembling C. tricolor, but with the thorax rounded and very differ- 

 ent from that insect or any Polybaptus, occurs chiefly on the Hi- 

 bisci, and especially Rosa Sinensis, at Raj pore, and even as high as 

 7000 feet above the sea. Of Dynastes Hardwickii, figured by Capt. 

 Boys in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' N.S. no. 54, 

 Mr. Benson had taken two males and a female, the latter without 

 horns ; also an intermediate male, with a very short horn on the 

 head and only the humeral horns of the thorax. Many Chinese 

 forms occur at Landour, among them Oniticellus cinctus, Callidea 

 ocellata, and a Sagra which he took in abundance at Rajpore, but it 

 is very local : the males and females differ in the toothing of the 

 hinder tibiae. When disturbed they throw themselves off a bush, 

 but are active when on the wing. Their brilliancy suffers much in 

 drying. 



" Note on the production of a Queen-Bee from a neuter larva, 

 and on the impregnation of the Queen." By Mr. Golding ; accom- 

 panied by a specimen of the queen's cell artificially produced. 



On the 28th of June, 1845, the writer placed a bit of comb con- 

 taining workers' brood in one of his hives which had lost its queen. 

 Two days afterwards he removed the royal cells which it contained, 

 whereupon the bees immediately (July 1st) commenced three royal 

 cells, from which, on the 12th of July, two queens were hatched, the 

 third having proved abortive. The writer agrees with Mr. West- 

 wood that there are no royal eggs, but only male and female ones, 

 the larvae produced from the latter being subjected to two distinct 

 modes of treatment ; the peculiar treatment of the brood destined to 

 royalty consists, in Mr. Golding's opinion, far more in the singu- 

 larly different construction of royal cells, than in any subsequent 

 treatment of the brood deposited in them : he has in fact very little 

 faith in the royal jelly notion. 



It appears certain to the writer that the impregnation of the 

 queen-bee takes place in the open air. Young queens, when but a 

 few days old, have been repeatedly noticed to leave the hive, of 

 which the writer mentions an instance observed by himself, where a 



