must not forget to mention one hrt, that the queen cells 

 proper are always round within, and fixed at an anj^le of 

 some twenty or twenty-five degrees, helow the given hori- 

 zontal line. This places the head of the Pupa Queen 

 downwards for a time, and the worker cells are formed at 

 an angle of some fifteen or twenty degrees ahove the line, 

 and thus raises the head of the worker-pupa upwards; the 

 cell, when used for storing h'iney also keeps the honey from 

 flowing out, until it is filled and sealed up. When a young 

 bee quits its pupa cell, it becomes the " Imago," or perfect 

 insect, and we at once see the body, which has become dis- 

 tinct in three chief divisions of the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen, which was not the case when we had to 

 examine it in the worm or larvec state and was be'ng 

 fed and raised in the cells. And in the comparison be- 

 tween the parts of the perfect Queen bee, and the 

 Worker bee, her sister, we find the alterations in the 

 strength of the jaws, the length of the proboscis, 

 and the longer curved string of the Queen bee, depriving 

 her of secreting the wax, and olil iterating the pollen 

 baskets on her thighs and the booklets of the two pair of 

 wings, these wings placed further apart and elongating the 

 body, or abdomen, and the tone of the whole Queen bee 

 of a richer rufus colour than that of the worker bee ; but 

 let us bring one or two more points of difference to the 

 test of the powerful microscopes now placed before you ; 

 you will find the mouth of the bee is the same, the upper 

 jaws, however, are stronger in appearance in the Queen 

 bee, to enable her to tear open any rival Queen bee cells, 

 the only (murderous) work she has been permitted to do, 

 whilst dispatching the victim of her hatred by hfr 

 sting, the worker bee's jaws being used for the purpose 

 of paring down waxen walls, and to assist in building 

 the combs, and these jaws are called mandibles, and 

 move horizontally ; the lower jaws or niaxillie, which 

 includes the proboscis, they open vertically. The lingula, 

 although from it« position has been named the 



