CONTENTS. 



Festooned curtain of Wax-Workers 

 CominenceniPnt of the coinh? 

 Hiiber's liislory of bis experiments 

 Secretion of wax . . . 



Found^tiDn of tlie first cell 

 Workers extract their own wax 

 View of the proceedings obstructed 

 CHAPTER VI. 

 Form of the cells .... 

 Mathematical problem solved by Bees 

 Calculated by Maraldi and Koenig 

 Reasons for tlie form of tlie cells . 



Referred lo the form of the Bee 

 Experiments of Hiiber 

 Cells commenced in the foundation-wall 

 Deepenino; of the cells 

 Poiisljino; by Nurse Bees 

 Distance of the combs from each other 

 Dr B (relay's discovery 

 Irregularities in their workmansliip 

 Anecdote from Dr Bevan 

 Similar anecdote from Huber 

 Symmetry in the architecture of Bees explained 

 Curved combs 



Experiments of Huber . . . 



Size of male cells 



Cells enlarged when honey is plentiful . 

 The finishinji of the cells .... 

 Varnis-hed with propolis 



Strengthened with pissoceros . , 



Discovered by Huber . 



Cells strengthened by the Bee-grubs 



Difficulties explained . 



Mistake of an American writer . . 



Curious experiment of Huber . 

 Wild-Honey-Bees .... 



Wild-Bees of America, Ireland, Palestine 



Honey-guide of Africa 



Bee-iiunting in America 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Carpentry ofTree hoppers (Cjcarfa) . 



Mistaken for Grass-hoppers 



Singular cutting instrument of tlie Tree-hopper 



Double files of . . « 



Their Nests .... 

 Saw-Flies ..... 



Their ovipositor 



Structure of ... , 



Comb-ioothed rasp, and saw 



Grooves cut by it in the rose-tree . 



