1240 Experiments with the Antenne of Insects. (December, 
on the stumps of the antennz, and then draw its head unde 
again. It soon crawled further up the table leg to the secon 
bead, where it sat till the next morning. As soon as I came ner 
it the next morning it threw up its feet again to ward me off evet 
before I touched it. It sat in the same position for fourteen hous 
in all, and at the end of that time I saw it on the floor, but do 
not know how it got down—whether it fell or came down of it 
self. It sat in one place on the floor for some time, but at eng 
began to crawl, or rather to drag itself across the room, carrying 
the antennz up high as if sore. When it came to the sun on tit 
floor through the window, it stopped, turned its head toward the 
sun and sat down again as before, and in this position T'foundit 
three-fourths of an hour after apparently dead. But it was i 
dead. I picked it up and pulled out one of the antenne toe 
amine it with a microscope. As I drew it, it came out by the 
roots as it were, leaving a considerable hole in the side of i | 
head, I left the body on the table where it lay perhaps an hott, 
and I had almost forgotten it when I was surprised by my T 
asking me, “ When are you going to kill that poor bee and putt 
out of its misery?” On going back I found it had come to lÉ 
again and was crawling over the floor as if in great nie 
ing now and then to rub its mutilated head with its fore Be 
thought it was time to kill it, and did so. I think it had fa 
on account of the pain. l 
2. I found on my window, where it had been for ae 
it, one 
a smaller humble-bee; I think, as I did not preserve t call 
the kind which nest in the cornice of buildings, &c. k w 
not notice anything, bad or good, which I put on its al” it ft 
but when I cut off one, it seemed to hurt it much and we i 
very much at random from place to place. When Fa tt 
other it lost all ambition and strength, and did not try t° r 
me, though I must say I gave it only a moderate came 
handled its abdomen rather carefully. It was soon 
too wr 
bear the weight of its own body or to stand upright, but © ‘ 
tumble over on its side or back and not move till ¢ . hal 
laid it on its back and walked on an errand a mile and a ha” 
home; when I returned I found it had not mo : 
killed it, : ec 
But it might be well to say here that all humble-bees 
so affected ; some hardly seem to know they have anf 
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