GENERAL CHAEACTERISTICS. 5 



This question jMr. Cheshire answers, as will be seen fur- 

 ther, in considering the antennaa. (26)* 



12. The three small eyes, ocelli, are thought by Iilauriee 

 Girard ("Les Abeilles," Paris, 1878), and others, to have a 

 uiicroseopie function, for sight at short distances. In the 

 hive, the work is performed in the dark, and possibly ( ?) 

 these eyes are iitted for this purpose. 



Fig. 2. 



SMALL EYES. OR OCELLI OF THE DEONE. 



Magnified. (Copied from BarbS.) Ttie facets on each side belong to 

 the large eyes 



13. Their return from long distances, either to their hive 

 or to the palace where they have found food, proves that bees 

 can see very far. Yet, when the entrance to their hive has 

 r".,een changed, even only a few inches, they cannot readily find 

 it. 



Their many eyes looking in different directions, enable them 



* The reader will readily understand that the numbers between par- 

 entheses refer to the paragraphs bearing those numbers. This is for 

 the convenience of the student. 



