28 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HONEY-BEE. 
gastric juice, which helps its transformation, and the undu- 
lating motion of the stomach sends it to its lower extremity, 
toward the intestines. But, before entering into them, the 
thyme receives the product of several glands which have 
been named Malpighian tubes (e, fig. 15) from the scientist 
Malpighi, who was the first to notice them. A grinding 
motion of the muscles placed at the junction of the stomach 
Fig. 16. (From Girard.) 
NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE HONEY-BEE. (Magnifled.) 
A, in the larva; B, in the bee. 
with the intestines, acting on the grains of potlen not 
yet sufficiently dissolved, prepares them to yield their 
assimilable particles to the absorbing cells in the walls of 
the small intestine. ‘Thence they go into the large intes- 
tine, from which the refuse matter is discharged by the 
worker-bees, while on the wing. We italicize the words, 
