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by the queen (Fig. 5), which, apart from her faculty 

 of reproduction, is almost in every point the inferior 

 of the worker (see page 55). We have learnt that both 

 she and her partner have relatively small brain de- 



Fig. 42.— Ovaries of Queen, &c. 



A Abdomen of Queen, Under Side (Magnified Eight times)-?, Petiole ■; O, O, 

 ' OvS" £ -Position Filled by Honey Sac ; ds, Position through wh ch 

 TWstive Svstem Passes ; od, Oviduct; co.d, Common Oviduct, F, Egg-passing 

 Oytduc" «fS^the«;; i Intestine ; pb } Poison Bag ; ^.Poison Gland; 

 it StinV- v Palpi. B, Rudimentary Ovaries of Ordinary Worker-sp Rucli- 

 meSl'SpermXca.' C Partially Developed Ovaries of Fertile Worker- 

 sp, Rudimentary Spermatheca. 



velopment, and that the tongue of each is so short 

 as to be unfit to gather honey ; that their jaws are 

 not suited to comb-building, and that neither has 



