210 THE MABVEL OF INSECT LIFE. 



up the honey cells with the bread cells and breeding 

 cells, so that the labour of separating them would not 

 have been repaid by the results. 



I have already mentioned that there are several 

 species of Hive Bees, but can only give a very brief 

 notice of two. One of these is the Banded Bee of the 

 Nile district (Apis fasciatus). This bee is remarkable 

 for the fact that the hives are placed in boats and taken 

 along the course of the river so as to secure a constant 

 supply of food, the owner of the bees paying the owner 

 of the boat by a percentage of wax and honey. The 

 next is the bee, or rather group of South American bees, 

 called "Angelitos," or little angels, because they never 

 sting. Some of them can and do bite fiercely. They, 

 however, possess no poison ; and although the bite inflicts 

 a momentary pang, it can do no more. 



