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deserve to be crowned ' King Bee' in perpetuity, to be entitled 

 to a never-fading wreath of budding honey flowers from sweetly 

 breathing fields all murmuring with bees, to be privileged to use 

 night tapers from their waxen thighs, best wax candles (two to 

 the pound), to have an annual offering from every bee master of 

 ten pounds each of very best virgin honey, and to a body guard 

 for protection against all foes, of thrice ten thousand workers, 

 all armed and equipped as Nature's laws direct. Who shall have 

 these honors ?" 



The most eligible claimant to such fame was the inventor of 

 the movable frame hive, Mr. Langstroth, whose death occurred 

 during the present year. Every well-informed bee-keeper appre- 

 ciates the facility with which such a hive may be examined to 

 ascertain the strength of the colony or the presence of the moth- 

 worm and the easy transference from one hive to another. 



All worm-infested combs should be* subjected to the fumes of 

 sulphur, then rinsed in water to remove as much of the debris as 

 possible and placed in the midst of a strong colony; the bees will 

 soon prepare them for the reception of eggs and pollen. Unoc- 

 cupied hives and broken brood comb should never be left exposed 

 in an apiary. 



A parasite of the bee-moth has been described in a French 

 journal. It is a tiny hymenopterous insect which lays its eggs 

 on the worm, and the little larvae, exceedingly numerous, nourish 

 themselves at the worm's expense until nothing is left but the 

 skin of the victim, upon which the parasites spin cocoons, from 

 which the winged insects appear. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME N. AMERICAN SYRPHID/E. 



By OLIVER S. WESTCOTT, Sc.D. 



Prof. Hunter's article in the June ".Canadian Entomologist," 

 with regard to North American Syrphidae, leads me to compile 

 a list of Syrphidae taken by myself in various parts of the country. 

 The memoranda may be useful to any who are engaged in ad- 

 vancing our knowledge of this family of a somewhat neglected 

 order. 



