Eggs of Queen, 35. 
longer than either drones or workers, being more than 
seven-eighths of an inch in length, and, with her long taper- 
ing abdomen, is not without real grace and beauty. The 
queen’s mouth organs are developed to a less degree than 
Fic. 28. 
| 
Labium of Queen. 
ea Ligula, : 
d@ d Paraglossz. 
6 Labial pelpi. 
Part of Leg of Queen, magnified, after Duncan, 
t Tibia Pp Broadened tibia and basal tarsus. 
# s Tarsal joints. 
are those of the worker bees. Her jaws (Fig. 42, 4) or 
mandibles are weaker, with a rudimentary tooth, and her 
tongue or ligula (Fig. 27, a), as also the labial palpi (Fig. 
24, 6) and maxillz, are considerably shorter. Of the four 
pairs of glands (Fig. 38) so elegantly figured, and so well 
described by Schiemenz, the queen has the first pair very 
rudimentary, and the others well developed. Her eyes, 
though like, yet hardly as large as the same in the worker 
bee (Fig. 6), are smaller than those of the drones, and do 
not meet above. So the three ocelli are situated above and 
between the compound eyes. The queen’s wings (Fig. 
