50 ' JNTRODUCTOHY REMARKS. 



To pass by his admirable history of the hive beefy 

 a considerable portion of his sixth volume is de- 

 voted to tiie wild species of the genus Apis, which 

 he divides into seven families, according to their 

 several modes of nidification, as follows : 



I. Bourdons. These construct their nests of mo^. 

 They are what I call genuine Bomhinatrices{p). 



II. Des ylheilles Perce-hois. These form curious 

 cells one above another in wood. They may 

 be csMeA false Bombinatrices(p), 



III. Des Abeilles Maconnes. These make their 

 nests of a kind of mortar, composed of ag- 

 glutinated particles of sand or earth (</). 



IV. Des j4beilles coupeuses de feuilles. The nidi 

 of these are curiously formed of the leaves of 

 trees, rolled up into a kind of cartridges (r). 

 This, with the preceding division, belongs to 

 my family of the genus Apis, " Lahio in- 



Jiexo elongaio." 



cle celle des mouches it raiel : elle est en grande partie renfermee 

 dans un etui ecailleux, et cylindi-ique : le bout de la trompe 

 sort de cet etui, et est accompagne de quatre filets analogues 

 aux quatre demi-fourreaux des autres trompes, mais autrement 

 construits ; ils paroissent graines. D'ailleurs au lieu que la 

 trompe des abeilles, lorsqu'elle est dans I'inaction a son bout 

 tourne vers le col, le bout de la trompe de ces Proabeilles se 

 trouve sous les dents." Mem. 6. p. q6. Tab. Q. fig. 6, 7. 

 Reaumur here mistakes tlie palpi for something analogous to- 

 the valvules and laciuice. 



(o) Ibid. Mem. 1. (p) Ibid. Mem. 2. {q) Ibid. Mem. 3. 



(r) Ibid. Mem. 4. p. Q7- usque ad fin. 



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