THE S\VARA\ 



queens that still are inert, and, at the 

 same time, if nymphs and Iarv£ abound, 

 to enlarge the store-houses and dormi- 

 tories of the nation, for this unprotlt- 

 able tumult instantaneously to subside, 

 for work to be at once resumed, and 

 the tlowers revisited : while the old 

 queen, who now is essential again, with 

 no successor to hope for, or perhaps to 

 fear, will renounce for this year her de- 

 sire for the light of the sun. Reassured 

 as to the future of the activit_\- that will 

 soon spring into life, she will tranquilly 

 resume her maternal labours, which con- 

 sist in the lading of two or three thou- 

 sand eggs a da\-. as she passes, in a 

 methodical spiral, from cell to cell, 

 omitting none, and never pausing to rest. 



