OR, MANUAt OP THB APIARY. 



ISS. 



push in and out, something as the sections of a spy-glass are 

 worked. 



The ventral or sternal abdominal plates of the secoqd, • 

 third, fourth and fifth segments of the worker (Fig. 72) are . 



FiQ. 72. 



Underside of Abdomen of Worker-Bee. — Original, 

 w Wax-Scales. w.w. Wax Scales. 



modified to form the " wax-pockets j" though wax-plate would 

 be a more appropriate name. These wax-plates (Fig. 73) are 

 smooth, and form the anterior portion of each of these ventral 

 plates. Each is margined with a rim of ohitine, which gives 

 it strength, and ma,kes " pocket " a more appropriate name. 



Fig. 73. 



wp Wax-Plates. 



c h Compouad Hairs. 



especially; as the preceding segment shuts over these wax- 

 plates. The posterior portiont— less , than half the sternite , 

 (Fig. 73),— bearsjcompound Jiairs, and shuts over the succeed- 



