Male Organs of Insects. 59 



where, in connection with mucus, they are stored. In most 

 insects there are glandular sacks (Fig. 12, d) joined to these 

 seminal receptacles, which in the male bee are very large. 

 The sperm cells mingled with these viscid secretions, as they 



a, a— Ovaries. 

 6— Oviducts. 



Queen Organs, greatly magnified. 



c— Oviduct. 



e — Spermatheca. 



appear in the seminal receptacle ready for use, formthe seminal 

 fluid. Extending from these seminal receptacles is the ejacu- 

 latory duct (Fig. 12, e, f, g), which in copulation carries the 

 male fluid to the penis (Fig. 12, h), through which it passes 



