x MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 269 
cleaning themselves, their unkempt coats becoming 
matted and greasy. 
In a sudden shower a Japzdarius or terrestris 
worker will sometimes take shelter under the eaves 
of a building or the horizontal bough of a tree. | 
have never seen a honey-bee doing this. 
It may be observed that the centre of attraction 
and affection in a colony of humble-bees is not the 
queen nor the food, but the brood, the future re- 
presentatives of the race, and especially that which 
is soon to emerge. 
