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the left the Bed-tailed or Lapidary Humble Bee, Bombus Iwpidarius, revelling 

 in pollen, and to the right is the small Cabbage Butterfly, Pontia JKapce / in 

 the suspended case of spirally-rolled leaves is a smaller Caterpillar, and above 

 are two long-horned Japan Moths, Adela, de GeereUa, communicating by 

 antenna! language 190 



A sentimental Grasshopper performing his moonlight serenade, whilst hia 

 ladye love directs her listening antennae to the quarter whence the 

 strains proceed. The light guitar furnished to the amative Gryllms by 

 Fancy, ranks not more properly as an instrument of music, than does that 

 organ of sweet sounds, the gift of nature, which he plays on at nature's 

 bidding 213 



13. A DEFENCE OF WASPS. 



In the centre is the common Humble Bee, Bombus terrestris, collecting pol- 

 len from the Palm Willow; to the right is a large female "Wasp, Ve&pa, 

 vulgaris, a winter survivor and foundress of a new colony, rasping wood 

 as material for her nest, and to the left is another individual of the 

 same, in flight, descending to the bank in which she has formed her 

 burrow . 214 



Portrait of a notable insect character, a widowed "Wasp, one of the few forlorn 

 winter-survivors of a populous summer colony, and the destined foundress 

 of a future spring settlement, weeping over the remains of a defunct part- 

 ner, deposited in an acorn-shell 231 



14. THE ROYAL REFORMf-BEES AS A BODY POLITIC. 



Two workers and a Drone of the domestic Bee, Apis meTM/fica, gathering honey 

 from the nectar-yielding Broom and Wild Thyme, with the Queen Bee above 

 and in the distance, as conductor of a swarm 



The aged Professor of the Mesmeric curt. 



A youthful Queen-Bee under the benevolizing operation of a mesmerizing Nurse- 

 worker of her race, a practitioner in Phreno-magnetism : an allegory of the 



