328 «HE entomologist's record. 



feet and flic fi awaij. But when the silk of which the cocoon is made is 

 wanted for manufacture, care is taken not to let the nwtln^ cat their 

 way through. The silkworm has sixteen ler/s, fourteen ej/es, and tirelre 

 rings round its budi/." 



A. ii., 122. — "Now the sillc ivonn is ready to cliamie into a moth. 

 To do this it must make a kind of case or shell, in which it may become 

 a chrysalis and rest for a time. This is called a cocoon. The silk 

 threads come out of two little tubes in the caterpillar s uioutli. Then it 

 stops, and if left alone it would, after a time, cat its ira;/ out of the 

 cocoon and appear as a perfect insect — a bright and beautiful 

 moth." 



Hymenoptera. 



C. ii. — " The drones are lazy bees. The workers do all the work. 

 Some fly away early in the morning to gather honey and pollen from the 

 flowers and wa.c from the Icares of some plants." (The bees figured 

 have hymenopterous bodies with dipterous wings. — Ed.) 



A. ii., 96 et se(j. — " Some insects, like the bee, make honey." . , . 

 " The bee is an insect which gathers iioncy from flowers." ... " They 

 (the workers) live about ^»v* months." . . . " The drones are males 

 and live a life of pleasure." 



A. ii., 106. — " She (the queen) lays all the eggs out of which youny 

 bees come." 



M. — " The bees thiyhs form baskets." " They (bees) hare no 

 jaivs." 



B. iii., 38.— " The rest of the members of this kingdom are drones, lazy 

 fellows, all of them, who loll about, catiny,slcepiny, doing no housework, 

 gathering no honey, but simply takinfi care that they yet emniyh to eat 

 themselves." 



C. iii., 147. — " Older ants take care of the baby ants, and when they 

 come out of their shells, help them to unfold their legs and wings. Ants 

 live together in large numbers in nests underground. The nests are 

 guarded by soldier-ants that sleep nearer the surface of tlie yroiind than the 

 others. They call the others up in the )uorniny. . . . They also 

 make little cows of certain insects which suck the sap from plants. 

 When they want a drink from them they stroke and pat the insects, 

 which then throw out the thick, sweet, sticky juice which the sap has 

 formed in them. If the insects do not give it to them, thej/ draw it from 



them ivith their feelers or antenna." 



General Entomology. 



A.J. — " The heat and light of the sun works in the world in giving 

 new life to insects." 



A. — " Some winged insects are called eaters because they eat their 

 food with their mouths." 



A. — "A cricket is a beetle." 



A. — "The mouth (of an insect) contains tiny sharp teeth." 



Av. iii., 103. — " In all these wings there is a network of lines which 

 stiffens them out and supports the thin substance of the wing, just as 

 the frame of a kite stili'ens and supports the paper stretched upon it. 

 , . . These Zt«<',v are known as veins." 



