COMB. 



103 



SlY. The cells in which, workers are reared are the 

 smallest. Those in which the drones are reared are larger. 

 It IS generally admitted that five worker-cells measure about 

 a linear inch, or twenty-five cells to the square inch, but this is 

 incorrect. If five worker-cells measured exactly an inch, 

 the number contained in a square inch would be about twenty- 

 nine. As they are usually somewhat larger, the average num- 

 ber in a square inch is a trifle over twenty-seven. Drone-cells 

 number about eighteen, in the same area. 



Fig. 47. 



WORKER COMB AND DRONE COME WITH CELLS OF ACCOMMODATION. 



L'Abbe Collin measured the average dimensions of the cells 

 very carefully, and the measurements given in his work (Paris, 

 1865) are about the same as those given above. 



218. The queen-cells have already been described. (104.) 



As bees, in building their cells, cannot pass immediately 



from one size to another, they display an admirable sagacity 



in making the transition by a set of irregular intermediate 



