128 IXSECT ARCHITECTURE. 



bee. There are numerous species of social bees, which, 

 while they diifer in many circumstances, agree in the prac- 

 tice of storing up honey, in the same way as we have 

 numerous species of the mason-bee and of the humble-bee. 

 Of the latter Mr. Stephens enumerates no less than forty- 

 two species indigenous to Britain. 



