34 Organs of Queen Bee. 
a double conduit, had it existed. Cheshire, in his first vol- 
ume, has given us two original points: this double passage, 
and the auditory organs of the antenne, neither of which 
are probably correct. The spermatheca, according to 
Leuckart, may contain 25,000,000 spermatozoa. We see, 
then, why it does not run empty, even though Siebold 
showed that each of the one and one-half million of eggs’ 
that a queen may lay, receives two or three sperm cells. 
That an egg does receive more than one spermatozoa, was 
not only demonstrated by Siebold, but is analogous with 
facts as seen in higher animals. The eggs, which, as Girard 
states, do not form as early in the ovaries as do the 
sperm cells in the organs of the drone, are a little more than 
Fic. 26. 
Queen Bee, magnified, 
A Egg. B Large end. 
m Micropile. 
1-16 of an inch long, slightly curved and rather smaller 
at the end of attachment to the comb. The outer mem- 
brane (Fig. 26) appears cellular when magnified, and 
shows the micropile at the larger end (Fig. 26, B. m). 
The possession of the ovaries and attendant organs, is the 
chief structural peculiarity which marks the queen, as these 
are the characteristic marks of females among all animals. 
But she has other peculiarities worthy of mention: She is 
