262 (April, 
colour, its course defines the boundary of the puffed region above the spiracles, 
and these last are pale yellow faintly outlined with black; the head generally 
bluish-green ; the tubercular dots are black, each bearing a short bristle, but they 
are very minute; the segmental folds yellowish ; two very short anal points some- 
times occur, but generally there is only a slight swelling on each side below the 
flap, the point of which shuts down between them. 
The ventral surface is of the green ground colour, with a central paler ochreous- 
greenish stripe between two lines that are composed of little transverse streaks, 
similar to those of the sub-dorsal line before described. — WM. BUCKLER, Emsworth, 
November 17th, 1870. 
Review. 
“THe Honry Bet,” irs NaturaL History, PHYSIOLOGY, AND MANAGEMENT, by 
Edward Bevan, M.D., revised, enlarged, and illustrated by William Augustus Munn, 
F.R.H.S., &c. Wan Voorst, 1870.— This edition of Dr. Bevan’s work on the 
honey-bee is revised, enlarged, and mutilated ; it is also disfigured by a number of 
coloured caricatures of the bees and their combs; we refer in proof of the latter 
assertion to plate G. The three sexes of the bee are there represented, as we are in- 
formed on the page descriptive of the figures ; at C a grotesque representation of the 
drone is seen from above; at F, the under-side ig shown, and, strange to say, the 
anterior pair of wings are attached beneath the thorax, close to the coxe of the 
anterior legs,—being also much smaller than the posterior pair! Of the plates 
intended to illustrate the anatomy of the bee we need only refer to plateL. Fig. A 
represents an antenna, but ib is not like that of any honey-bee with which we 
are acquainted ; three cup-shaped joints are represented at the apex of the scape, 
which certainly exist in no sex of any honey-bee. The figures have both letters 
and numbers quite at variance with the description of the plates; the anatomical 
plates being, in fact, full of confusion and error. 
We regret that we are unable to speak more favourably of the literary portion 
of the work incorporated by Major Munn, and we must protest against his having 
in no way distinguished his own interpolations from the valuable work of Dr. Bevan, 
and against the frequent and quite inexcusable alterations of the original text. 
Dr. Bevan’s work gave the world an accumulation of valuable information up to 
the time of its publication, and was a valuable text-book to the apiarian ; but 
the same remarks can by no means be correctly applied to the present edition. 
The great aim of the work appears to be to laud the superiority of Major 
Munn’s bar-and-frame-hive over all other inventions ; to us, it appears to be a 
clumsy contrivance, adopted by no modern bee-master who aims at a knowledge 
of the mysteries of the hive. The simple, modern, frame-hive with moveable 
bars is so admirably adapted both for observation and economy, that we have no 
doubt Major Munn’s invention will continue to enjoy the obscurity in which it has 
hitherto remained. 
Major Munn has ventured to attack Dr. Siebold’s great discovery of Partheno- 
genesis; but he adds, at page 336, “this is not the occasion to combat the 
“ errors beyond stating one or two facts, which I believe to be fatal to the whole 
“gonclusion.” The first fact proves, on examination, to be a mere supposition: 
