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brushes on the middle and hind legs is a row of 
extra long bristles (shown clearly in Fig. 5, A), 
which probably act as a comb for cleaning, 
amongst other things, the brushes on the other 
metatarsi. In the case of the present queen the 
wax on the metatarsal brush on the right hind leg 
was probably removed by the metatarsal comb on 
the left middle leg. 
The removal of the wax greatly relieved the 
queen, and it did not accumulate again in any 
quantity : this confirmed what I had long suspected, 
namely, that the queen humble-bee almost ceases to 
produce wax after her first workers appear. 
Two ¢errestris workers were given to the queen the 
day before she killed her comrade, and these nursed 
the brood well. On June 5 the first young worker 
emerged, a large and perfect one. A second worker 
appeared on June 8, and others followed on June 
21. Needing more room in my humble-bee house, 
I united the nest to another, the queen of which 
unfortunately killed my crippled pet. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
Towards the end of June 1899 I exhibited two 
small colonies of B. terrestris at the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society's show at Maidstone, in a little 
hive set on a table far inside the bee-tent. The 
workers easily found their way to their hive although 
it was surrounded by a crowd of interested onlookers, 
who were able afterwards to see them depositing. 
