THE ROYAL STING 



{Facing page) The queen's sting, highly magnified, shewing the 

 various parts separated for identification. The two curved lancets are 

 clearly visible springing from a mass of muscles which operate them. 

 To their left is the sheath with the dark mass of the pouch at its base. 

 The tip of the sheath is seen lying across the two palpi. 



