MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 23 
honey-bag.. When full, it exhibits the form 
of a small transparent globe, somewhat less 
in size than a pea. It is susceptible of con- 
traction, and so organized as to enable the 
Bee to disgorge its contents. 'The second 
stomach, which is separated from the first, 
of which it appears to be merely a continua- 
tion, only by a very short tube, is cylindri- 
cal, and very muscular. It is the receptacle 
for the food, which is there digested, and 
conveyed by the small intestines to all parts 
of the body for its nutriment. It receives 
also the, honey from which wax is elabora- 
ted. Scales of this last mentioned substance 
are found ranged in pairs, and contained in 
minute receptacles under the lower segments 
of the abdomen. No direct channel of com- 
munication between the stomach and these 
receptacles or wax-pockets has yet been dis- 
covered,,but Huber conjectures that the se- 
creting vessels are contained in the mem- 
brane which lines these receptacles, and 
which is covered with reticulations of hex- 
agonal meshes, analagous to the inner coat 
