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The Honey Stomach. 



should expect, as the honey has to be regurgitated from it 

 to the honey cells. This is truly a digestive chamber, as- 

 the nectar— cane sugar— is here changed to honey— glucose- 

 like sugar— but this is probably through the ferment 



Section showing structure of Honey -stomach. Stomach-mouth and Stomach. 



H s Honey-stomach. 

 S Stomach. 

 m Muscles. 



6" m Stomach-mouth, 

 E Epithelial cells. 

 V Stomach valve. 

 h Hairs to hold pollen. 



received from the glands of Meckel and Ramdohr, and 

 not from any secretion from the organ itself. The pol- 

 len is also very slightly digested here as Schonfeld has 

 shown, through the action of the saliva from the glands of 

 Siebold, or lower head glands. At the posterior end of 

 this honey-stomach is the stomach-mouth ( Fig. 2 1 and 40, J, 

 ni) of Burmeister which is admirably described by Schie- 

 menz. It is really a stomach-mouth. Spherical in form, .02 

 of an inch in diameter, and, as Schonfeld well says, reminds 

 one of a flower bud. It ( Fig. 2 1 ) can be seen by the unaided 



