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and to fasten them more securely to the roof of the hive. This took place 
in the month of January, and, therefore, not during the working season, 
and when to provide against a distant eventuality was the only question. 
M. Walond has reported an analogous observation. Is there not here, in 
the first place, a true and excellent reasoning, then an act, an operation, a 
work executed as the result of this reasoning? Now, an operation which is 
performed as the result of reasoning is attributable to intelligence. Again, 
the bees give different sorts of food to the different sort of larve. They 
know how to change this food when an accident has deprived the hive of its 
queen, and it is necessary to replace her: this is another proof of intel- 
ligence. 
“But it is, above all, in the face of an enemy that the intellectual facul- 
ties of these insects show themselves. There are always at the entrance 
of every hive three or four bees, which have nothing else to do but to guard | 
the door, to keep a watch over incomers and outgoers, and to prevent an 
enemy or an intruder from slipping into the community. When one of 
them perceives an enemy on the borders of the hive, it dashes forwards 
towards it, and, by a menacing and significant buzzing, warns it to retire. 
If it does not understand the warning, which is a rare occurrence, — for men, 
horses, dogs, and animals of all kinds know perfectly well the danger to 
which they expose themselves by approaching too near to a hive in full oper- 
ation, —the bee gets a reénforcement, and very soon returns to the combat 
with a determined battalion. All this is, it seems to us, intelligence.” 
ORDER X. LEPIDOPTERA. 
These insects, most of them beautiful, and many of them dressed in the 
most gorgeous and brilliant manner, have four wings, covered on both sur- 
faces with small, colored scales, resembling a farinaceous powder, which 
come off at the slightest touch, whence the name of the order —a Greek 
word signifying scale-wings. Their proboscis is rolled up in a spiral direc- 
tion between two palpi, clothed with scales or hairs, and forms the most 
important part of the mouth, and with which they draw up the nectar of 
flowers, which is their sole food. The antenn are composed of a great 
number of joints. 
The larve of these insects are those ugly and repulsive-looking creatures 
called Caterpillars. They have six scaly feet, corresponding with those 
of the perfect insect, besides four to ten membranous feet, of which the two 
last are situated at the posterior extremity of the body. Those which have 
only ten or twelve feet are called Geometers, or Loopers, from their pecu- 
liar mode of walking. 
