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Description of Drones. 



flight is more heavy and lumbering than that of the workers. 

 Their ligula, labial palpi and maxillae — like the same in the 

 queen bee — are short, while their jaws (Fig. 24, a) possess 

 tbe rudimentary tooth, and are much the same in form as 

 those of the queen, but are heavier, though not so strong as 

 those of the workers. Their eyes (Fig. 4) are very prominent, 

 meet above, and thus the simple eyes are thrown forward. 

 Their posterior legs are convex on the outside (Fig. 20), so, 

 like the queens, they have no poUen baskets. The drones are 

 without the defensive organ, having no sting, while their 

 special sex-organs (Fig. 12) are not unlike those of other 

 insects, and have already been sufficiently described. 



Fig. 20. 



Fig. 19. 



Drone Bee, magnified. 



Part of Leg of Drone, magnified. 



«— Tibia. 



p — Broadened tibia and basal tarsns. 



t s— Joints of Tarsus. 



o— Claws. 



It was discovered by Dzierzon, in 1845, that the drones 

 hatch from unimpregnated eggs.' This strange phenomenon. 



