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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 terrestris 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 



