EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 491 



Fig. 42 is a worker-larva fully grown and ready to en- 

 velop itself in a cocoon, (p. 49.) 



Fig. 43. Worker-Nymph or Pupa, (p. 49.) 



Fig. 44 shows the eggs of the bee-moth, of natural and 

 magnified size. 



Fig. 45 is a larva of the bee-moth, fully grown and ready 

 to envelop itself in a cocoon, (p. 245.) 



Fig. 46 is a web or gallery of the kind often spun by the 

 larva of the bee-moth, in which its protects itself from the 

 bees, (p. 248.) 



These illustrations have been taken principally from the 

 works of Swammerdam, Reaumer and Huber. 



PLATE XIV. Fig. 47. 



This Plate, (see p. 73) was copied with some important 

 additions, from a wood-cut in Cotton's " My Bee-Book." 



5 A queen-cell from which the inmate has not yet emerged. 



a A queen-cell, with the cap or lid as it often appears, just 

 after the young queen has come out. 



d A queen-cell whose inmate has met with a violent 

 death, (p. 148.) 



c The remains of a queen-cell which the bees have nearly 

 demolished, (p. 149.) 



n A cell in which the bees have just begun to rear, artifi- 

 cially, a young queen, (p. 73.) 



e Cells containing honey, some full and sealed over, and 

 others only partially sealed. 



y Cells with eggs, larvae and hatching bees. 



g Drone-cells containing brood capped over by the bees, 



p A hole in the comb showing its depth. 



PLATE XV. Figs. 48, 49, and 50. 



Fig. 48 is a piece of honey-comb with cells of the size of 

 nature. Those on the right hand, are of drone, and those 

 on the left, of worker size. The five-sided cells between 

 them, show how bees pass from one size of cell to another. 



This accurate and beautiful representation of comb, was 

 drawn from nature, by M. M. Tidd, of Boston, Mass., and 

 engraved by D. T. Smith of the same city. 



