Genus of the Honey-Bee. 



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highest of insect families, at the head of which staitd our 

 own fellow laborers and companions of the apiary. 



I shall be very glad to receive specimens of wild bees 

 from every State in our country. To send bees kill with 

 gasoline or chloroform, and mail in a strong box wrapped 

 with cotton, so as to prevent injury. 



THE GENUS OF THE HONEY-BEE, 



The genus Apis includes all bees that have ho tibial 

 spurs on the posterior legs, and at the same time have three- 

 cubital or sub-costal cells (6, 7, 8, Fig. 4) — the second row 



Fig. 4, 



A Anterior or pi'imsiry "wing", 



B Posterior or secondary wing. 



C Hooklets miicli mag^niiied, 



<z Costal vein. 



b Sub-costal vein. 



c Median vein. 



d Anal vein. 



q Posterior marg^in, 



s Fold where hooklets catch. 



h Hooklets. 



1 Costal cell. 



2 Median cell. 



3 Sub-median cell. 



4 Anal cell. 



5 Margfinal cell. 



6, 7, 8 and 9 Sub marginal cell. 

 10, 11 and )2Discoidal cells. 

 13 and 14 Apical cells. 



from the costal or anterior edge — on the front or primary 

 wings. The marginal cell (5, Fig. 4), is very long. On the 

 inner side of the posterior basal tarsus, opposite the pollen 

 baskets, in the neuters or workers, are rows of hairs (Fig. 

 48,) which are used in collecting pollen. In the males, 

 which do no work except to fertilize the queens, the large 

 compound eyes meet above, crowding the three simple 

 eyes below (Fig. 5), while in the workers (Fig. 6) and 



