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pin so that it turns upward, and then the 

 tongue drawn up with tweezers, an orifice 

 called the gullet will be seen, which takes 

 the honey into the esophagus. 

 This tube extends through the 

 breast or thorax, and, with the 

 artery, spinal marrow, and tra- 

 cheas, passes through the slen- 

 der connection whicn unites the 

 breast with the abdomen, where 

 it is suddenly enlarged into the 

 honey-sac. One can easily see 

 the complete intestine by grasp- 

 ing the last segment of the ab- 

 domen with tweezers and draw- 

 ing it out very carefully and 

 slowly, together with the sting. 

 If the work is nicely done, the 

 whole intestinal tube maybe ex- 

 posed little by little. At first the 

 rectum is seen, which is some- 

 times empty and sometimes so 

 swollen by the mass of refuse 

 matter which it contains that it 

 is larger than the honey-sac. 

 After this comes a very slender 

 thread, the small intestine uc- 

 jununv. This is followed by the 

 chyle-stomach, which is consid- 

 erably thicker than the small in- 

 testine, and girded with a mass 

 of tracheas, and supplied with 

 circular incisions, .\fter the 

 chyle-stomach is an exceedingly 

 thin thread, the stomach-mouth, 

 connecting the chyle-stomach 



with the honey-sac. Like the rectum, the 

 honey-sac differs considerably in size. When 

 empty it is very small; but when full, as it is 



LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE STOMACH-MOUTP. 

 This is further explainod in Fitr. 1 — (i. 



