PLATE 9. 
A little under natural size. 
HONEY-COMB anp BROOD. 
6, queen-cell with lid, as it often apprars after the queen has hatched out of it; 
4 
inmate has been destroyed; 
6, u. hatched queen-cell; 
ce, remains of a queen-cell; d, queen-cell whose 
2, queen-cell in the midst of a comb; 
e, cells containing honey; 
J, cells with worker brood; 
g, eclls with drone brood. 
