Miss Abpis’s Legs. 55 
These brushes are tufts or rows of stiff 
hairs that are not branched. 
If we look on the wader side of her hind 
leg, the same that bears the pollen basket 
on the fourth joint of its upper side, we 
shall see two kinds 
of brushes or combs 
for gathering the pol- 
len together, the stiff 
hairs on the edge of the fourth joint, and 
the sharp teeth that cover the fifth joint. spam 
Each hind leg is supplied with these use- 7 
ful brushes, and one hind leg scrapes the A 
pollen into the basket of the other. A 
The first chance you get you must watch 
Miss Apis gathering pollen. | Sometimes 
she looks as if she were running about over 
a head of flowers to find something she 
had lost,— now this way and now that she 
goes in a great hurry, then turns around 
and around. But she has not lost anything, 
and she has not gone crazy; she is merely 
collecting pollen as fast as she can, and if 
