50 HUMBLE CREATURES. 



CHAPTER IV. 



INTEENAl ANATOMY OF THE BEE. — ORGANS OP DIGESTION. — 

 GASTRIC TEETH. — EESPrBATOKT SYSTEM. — SPIEACLES OB 

 BEEATHING-HOLBS, AND TEACHER OE AIE-TUBES. — THBIE 

 BEAtfTIFUI, CONSTEUCTION AND DISTEIBUTION THEOITGH 

 THE BODY. — NEEVOTJS AND CIECIILATING SYSTEMS : THBIE 

 BELATTVE POSITION IN THE BEE. — DOESAI VESSEL AND 

 PHENOMENA OF CIECTrLATION. — NEEVOrS SYSTEM. — OEGANS 



OF EEPEODrCTION IN THE QTJEEN-BBE. — OVARIES, ETC. 



METHOD WHEREBY THE EGGS ARE FERTILIZED, AND RE- 

 MARKABLE PO'WER OF REPRODUCTION IN THE VIRGIN QUEEN. 

 — STING. — UNITY OF DESIGN IN THE BBE'S STRUCTURE. 



If we have found in the external structure of the 

 Bee interesting subjects of ohservation and inquiry, 

 so shall we also be able to discover in its internal 

 physiology features that are equally deserving of our 

 careful attention. 



Here, however, the magnifying lens alone will not 

 suffice, and we must first borrow the scalpel of the 

 anatomist, and penetrating the solid integument of 

 chitine that forms the external supporting frame of 

 the insect, to which the various muscles are attached, 

 we must lay open the several divisions of its body, 

 and then examine them through the scrutiaizing 

 medium of the lens. 



