PREFACE. 



The favour with whichj owing to the daily increasing 

 demand for popular scientific literature^ the author's 

 first putlication was received, has encouraged him to 

 make additional eflforts, in the followiug pages, to 

 convey to the reader accurate scientific information 

 in easy and popular language; and although the 

 work has no pretensions to erudition, yet it is to be 

 hoped that some of the features described in con- 

 nexion with the Bee's anatomy may prove new and 

 interesting even to advanced students of Natural 

 History. It is also right to remark that some in- 

 accuracies which crept into the former work have 

 been corrected in the present one ; and in this por- 

 tion of his labours the author has received consider- 

 able assistance from his scientific friends. 



Dr. Hicks, whose aid is acknowledged on the title- 

 page, supplied him with several valuable sketches, 



