lig Glands of Stebold. 
the meibomian glands in our own eyelids; that is, a long duct 
bears many follicles rich with secreting cells, the whole 
looking like a compound leaf with small leaflets. The 
ducts empty on the floor of the mouth. These glands are 
very marked in nurse bees, but smaller in aged bees. 
Schiemenz believes that these glands secrete the food for 
the larval bees and also for the laying queen. Their large 
size, their full development only in the nurse bees, and their 
entire absence in queen and drones, surely seem to give 
great force to this view. As already stated the queen larva 
is fed very liberally, and almost exclusively, of this so-called 
bee milk. Berlepsch says that the little pollen sometimes 
found in the digestive tube of the queen larva is accidental. 
The worker larva receives less of this secretion, and to it 
is added, just at the last, some partially digested pollen which 
