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PHYSIOLOGY OP 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 

 chyme receives the product of several glands which have 

 been named Malpighian tubes (e, flg. 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.) 

 NEEVOUS SYSTEM OF THE HONET-BEE. 

 A, in the larva; B, in the bee. 



(Magnified.) 



with the intestines, acting on the grains of pollen not 

 yet sufHciently dissolved, prepares thein 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, 



