CHAPTER XL 



PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BEE. 



Nervous System — The Head — Eyes — Compound and Simple — Uses 

 and Powers — Sir John Lubbock's Experiments — The Antennae — 

 Structure and Uses — Mouth — Detailed Description. 



Before proceeding to detail the most important 

 facts connected with the internal economy of the 

 hive, it will be desirable to describe with some mi- 

 nuteness the physiology and anatomy of the inhabit- 

 ants, so that it may he more easy to understand the 

 means by which various processes are accomplished, 

 and the most important events of the community are 

 brought about. Much that has been hitherto said 

 will become more readily comprehended by attention 

 to the structure of the various organs we are now 

 about to describe. 



It will hardly be necessary to enter into a more 

 minute account, than we have already given, of the 

 egg, the larva, and the pupa. We shall, therefore, 

 confine ourselves to detailing the most interesting 

 points in the physiology of the perfect insect. 



It has been noted, in an earlier chapter, that the 

 members of this division of the animal kingdom are 

 characterised by having three very distinct segments 



