GEXERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



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

 ther, in considering the antennae. (26)* 



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

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

 micrcscopie function, for sight at short distances. In the 

 hive, the work is performed in the dark, and possibly ( 1) 

 these eyes are fitted for this purpose. 



Fig. 2. 



SMALL EYES; OB OCELLI OP THE DRONE. 



Magnified. (Copied Irom Barb8.) The facets on each side belong to 

 the large eyes. 



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

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

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

 been changed, even only a few inches, they cannot readily find 

 it. 



Their many eyes looking in different directions, enable them 



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