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APPENDICES. 
Brier Notes. 
lL. ulye at which the Queen flics—On page 29 of our text 
we have set down the usual date of this event as “the first 
tine day after she is two days old;” but we think it better 
here to point out that there exists much discrepancy between 
the results of different experiments upon this point. Mr. 
Cheshire informs us that he has pursued a series of most 
careful investigations, and his conclusion therefrom has been 
entirely in accordance with “the French experiments,” and 
has brought out the seventh day as the one in question. 
Referring to Von Berlepsch, we find his words are, “The 
queen begins her flights on or about the third day after she 
has left the cell; at least, among all the queens whose age 
was known to me, I never in the course of my long practice 
met with one that flew earlier, though I am not prepared to 
deny that it may so happen upon occasion.” Thus he has 
evidently not so much as an idea of any one denying that 
it takes place so early. Can it be that there are climatic 
influences at work which bring the insects to sexual matu- 
rity earlier in one country than another? Had it been 
India instead of Germany, we should think at once of a 
human analogy, and accept such an idea with little hesita- 
tion. The commencement of laying is set down by the 
above authority at from two to three days (probably sixty 
to seventy hours) after impregnation. 
2, A new View of the Italians.—Under the heading “ Black 
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