Miss Apis’s Legs. 59 
She generally cleans her antenne, and 
combs her head and eyes first. She turns 
her head from side to side, and puts her 
front leg up over it and draws her ad am 
convenient comb through the-2ss= 
hairs. She turns her head about, using fi first 
one front leg and then the other, until she 
has it as clean as a bee’s head ought to be. 
She generally puts out her tongue and gives 
that a good rubbing too, grasp- 
ing it in both her fore feet. 
= When you watch a bee 
performing her toilet you will understand 
why her legs are so beautifully jointed. 
She must be able to move them in all direc- 
tions, and put them over her back or under 
her body. 
She generally cleans her back with her 
middle legs; and her abdomen, 5 - 
as the last division of the body —™e Ss 
is s called, with her hind legs. = 
= She also uses her hind legs to 
