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within two or three days after issuing from the cell. The glands which 
secrete a part of the food required by the developing larve are active 
during the earlier part of the life of the worker. Later, these nurses 
become incapable of doing their work well as the gland system be- 
comes atrophied. When a few days old they take short flights, if the 
weather favors, but seldom commence gathering stores before they 
are fifteen days old. Wax production is more essentially a function 
of the workers in middle life, and it is particularly noticeable that 
those bees fashioning the wax into combs are principally of this class. 
Many of those acting as foragers do, however, secrete wax scales, 
which are doubtless, in the main, utilized. Among the outside workers 
and hive defenders some bring honey only on certain trips or for a 
time, others honey and pollen, others water, and yet others propolis or 
bee glue to stop up erevices and glue things fast. Meanwhile, some 
are buzzing their wings at the entrance to ventilate the hive, and 
others are removing dead bees, dust or loose fibers of wood from the 
inside of the hive or from near the entrance, or are guarding this last 
against intruders, or perhaps driving out the drones when these are no 
longer needed 
Notes on New Hampshire Lepidoptera.—Mr. James H. 
Johnson, Pittsfield, N. H., in a letter to the editor of this department, 
recently, included the following notes on Lepidoptera in his region : 
* I have one specimen of Colias interior from Charlestown. This, I 
notice, Maynard calls * accidental at Waterville, Me. One specimen 
of Debis portlandia I took at Webster, one Limenitis arthemis (proser- 
pina) at South Sutton, one Thanaos brizo and several of Neonympha 
eurytris at Charlestown. I have a pair of the Chionibas jutta from 
Orono, Me. 
* Of the moths, I have one each of Catocala relicta and C. relicta 
(bianca) one pair of Eacles imperialis. These three were taken at 
South Sutton, Va. I find Eucronia maia is quite common in one place 
here at Pittsfield. Have not noticed it elsewhere. I see Dr. Harris 
called it rare in Mass.” 
Hemiptera of Buffalo.—One of the most valuable of recent 
faunal lists has just appeared in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of 
Natural Sciences (Vol. V, No. 4). It is * A List of the Hemiptera of 
Buffalo and Vicinity,” by Edward P. Van Duzee. It “ enumerates all 
the described Hemiptera to and including the Jassoidea known to in- 
habit the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y. The limit of 70 miles, adopted by 
