MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 269 



cleaning themselves, their unkempt coats becoming 

 matted and greasy. 



In a sudden shower a lapidarius or terrestris 

 worker will sometimes take shelter under the eaves 

 of a building or the horizontal bough of a tree. I 

 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. 



