408 MR. T. J. BEIANT ON THE 



bars, tlie spots rounder on tlie breast, and squarer and larger on 

 the flanks ; thighs tawny, mottled with chocolate-brown centres 

 to the feathers ; under tail-coverts pale tawny buff, mottled Hke 

 the breast with brown bars and large rounded white spots ; under 

 wing-coverts dark chocolate-brown, the inner ones and axillaries 

 pale rufous on their edges ; greater under wing-coverts blackish 

 below, with broad bars of white on the inner web ; quills 

 blackish below, with obsolete paler bars on the inner web, rather 

 plainer near the base, the first primary hoary white near the base 

 of the outer web, and notched with hoary white for the greater 

 part of the latter. Total length 12 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 

 8-7, tail 5-0, tarsus 1-25. 



Fam. PAEADisiiD-aE. 

 Grenus Ambltoenis. 



Amblyoenis subalaeis, sp. n. 



Differs from A. inornatus in being more dingy in colour below, 

 being dusky brown, with fulvous centres and narrow fulvous 

 shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts and inner Uning of quills rich 

 ferruginous, instead of orange-buff. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0*9, wing 4'65, tail 3"4, tarsus V'k. 



On the Anatomy and Functions of the Tongue of the Honey- 

 Bee (Worker). By Teayees James Beiant. (Communi- 

 cated by B. Daydon Jackson, Sec.L.S.) 



[Head 3rd April, 1884.] 



(Plates XVIII. & XIX.) 



In order to arrive at a just appreciation of the relationship of 

 the tongue of the Bee to the rest of the head, it will be necessary 

 to refer to the more conspicuous parts of the endo- skeleton to 

 which it is related. 



From the lower half of the ring which surrounds the occipital 

 foramen arise two pillars (a, fig. 1, longitudinal section of head, 

 without muscles ; fig. 2, horizontal section, with muscles), which 

 pass obliquely downwards to the front wall of the head, and there 



