Genus of the Honey-Bee. 35 
highest of insect families, at the head of which stand our 
own fellow laborers and companions of the apiary. 
I shall be very glad to receive specimens of wild bees 
from every State in our country. To send bees kill with 
gasoline or chloroform, and mail in a strong box wrapped 
with cotton, so as to prevent injury. 
THE GENUS OF THE HONEY-BEE, 
The genus Apis includes all bees that have no tibial 
spurs on the posterior legs, and at the same time have three 
cubital or sub-costal cells (6, 7, 8, Fig. 4)—the second row 
Fic. 4. 
A Anterior or primary wing. 1 Costal cell, 
B Posterior or secondary wing. 2 Median cell. 
C Hooklets much magnified, 3 Sub-median cell. 
@ Costal vein. 4 Anai cell, 
6 Sub-costal vein. 5 Marginal cell. 
c Median vein, 6, 7,8 and 9 Sub-margina! cell. 
@ Anal vein. 10, 11 and 12Discoidal cells. 
g Posterior margin, 13 and 14 Apical cells, 
s Fold where hooklets catch. 
’# Hooklets. 
from the costal or anterior edge—on the front or primary 
wings. The marginal cell (5, Fig. 4), is very long. On the 
inner side of the posterior basal tarsus, opposite the pollen 
baskets, in the neuters or workers, are rows of hairs (Fig. 
48,) which are used in collecting pollen. In the males, 
which do no work except to fertilize the queens, the large 
compound eyes .meet above, crowding the three simple 
eyes below (Fig. 5), while in the workers (Fig. 6) and 
