COMB. 



103 



217. The cells in ■which workers are reared are the 

 smallest. Those in ivliieh the drones are reared are larger. 

 It IS generally admitted that five -worker-cells measure about 

 a linear inch, or twenty-tive cells to the square inch, but this is 

 incorrect. If five worker-cells measured exactly an inch, 

 the number contained in a scjuare inch would be about twenty- 

 nine. As they are usually somewhat larger, the average num- 

 ber in a scjuare inch is a trifle over twenty-seven. Drone-cells 

 number about eighteen, in the same area. 





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Pig. 47. 

 WORIvEE COMB AND DRONE COME WITH CELLS OF ACCOMMODATION. 



L'Abbe Collin measured the average dunensions of rhe cells 

 vei-y carefully, and the measurements given in his work (Paris, 

 1S6.5) are about the same as those given above. 



218. The queen-cells have already been described. (104.) 



As bees, in building their cells, cannot pass immediately 



from one size to another, they display an admirable sagacity 



in making the transition by a set of irregular intermediate 



