The Sovertign, or Dueen-Bee defiribed. 64 
laft,-with her belly upwards, which prefently:prefents 
her to the eye of’a d ligentiand curious’ obferver. 's +) =~ 
‘The populous, which are the laborious and*moft nu- 
| merous part of this body politick, are the fecond fort or’ 
clafs., ‘Thefe with fome are accounted-the-males;* but’ 
the more prevailing opinion is, that they are<females; 
tho’ in truth they are of neither fex. But having alrea#. 
dy given fo particular and full account ofthis corps, 
there is no occafion to add any thing further. Si thins 
head. 4c 
The Drones compofe the third and laft ies baliich 
are about one third larger and longer than.-the: other, 
The head is round; the eyes full, and form the greateft 
part of the face; the tongue is fhort, and the belly differs 
from the other two, being broader and much more ob- 
tufe ; of a darker colour than the reft, and thicker cloath- 
ed; their voice likewife louder, and in flight making a 
much greater noife, whereby it is eafy to diftinguifh them 
from all the reft; and to fay when they travel abroad, 
and when they return, tho’ unfeen. At their firft ap- 
pearance I have often heard the found, beforeI have dif. 
cerned. the infec. : 
They are alfo eafily conquered, empellahi atid flain. fit 
the commons, haying no fting by which to defend thems | 
felves againft thefe imperious dames.* Loic oes 
Thefe is urged by the phylofopher as an aresimetl a= 
gaint the agency of the Drones in generation; who fays,: 
it agrees not, with reafon, that the Bees fhould be fe-. 
males, 
he ‘ai ccals the Males generally mafter the Females, yethere the Fee 
males have the Preheminence: Puney 
