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of the Bee^ the real tongue, now described, has been 

 erroneously confounded with the ligula or central 

 piece of the proboscis, afterwards to be described. 

 The upper jaw (Wood-Cut, page 31, fig. 1. c, c.) 

 of the Bee, as of all other insects, is divided verti- 

 cally into two, thus forming, in fact, a pair of jaws 

 under the name of mandibles. They move horizon- 

 tally, are furnished with teeth, and serve to the little 

 labourers as tools, with which they perform a variety 

 of operations, as manipulating the wax, constructing 

 the combs, and polishing them, seizing their enemies, 

 destroying the drones, &c. The lower jaws or maxillae, 

 divided vertically as the others, form, together with 

 the labium or under lip, the complicated apparatus 

 of the PROBOSCIS. Its parts are represented in the 

 following figure. 



