CONTENTS. 
OF THE THIED VOLUME. 
BOOK XI. 
THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS. 
CilAP. ^ Page 
1. The extreme smallness of insects 1 
2. Whether insects respire, and whether they have blood .. 3 
3. The bodies of insects 4 
4. Bees . . 5 
5. The order displayed in the works of bees id. 
6. The meaning of the terms commosis, pissoceros, and propolis . , 6 
7. The meaning of erithace, sandaraca, or cerinthos 7 
8. "What flowers are used by the bees in their work ib. 
9. Persons who have made bees their study 8 
10. The mode in which bees work ib. 
11. Drones 10 
12. The qualities of honey 11 
13. Where the best honey is produced 12 
] 4. The kinds of honey peculiar to various places ib. 
15. How honey is tested. Ericseum. Tetralix, or sisirum . , . . 14 
16. The reproduction of bees ." . . .. 16 
17. The mode of government of the bees 18 
18. Happy omens sometimes afforded by a swarm of bees . . . . 19 
19. The various kinds of bees 20 
20. The diseases of bees , ,» 21 
21. Things that are noxious to bees 22 
22. How to keep bees to the hive 23 
23. Methods of renewing the swarm ib. 
24. Wasps and hornets : animals which appropriate what belongs to 
others . . ..... . . 24 
25. The bombyx of Assyria 25 
26. The larvae of the silk- worm — who first invented silk cloths . . ib. 
27. The silk- worm of Cos — how the Coan vestments are made . . 26 
28. Spiders; the kinds that make webs; the materials used by them. 
in so doing * 27 
