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for SUlt> samc aut hor deprived crickets, which are animals noted 
acuteness of hearing, of the antennas; yet they were equally sen- 
tlie^ 01 soun d as before. Lehmann concludes on the whole, that as 
■ _ are not the organs of either smell or hearing, their prin- 
'vitli K,U S'' not sole office is feeling. But they are also endowed 
• ari unknown sense, which he denominates aerokcepsin, and con- 
tli '] ireS tbat * u certain species they may contribute to the defence of 
luber, well known for his ingenious and acute observations on 
>ees , has made several most interesting experiments on the sub- 
.1 ct. Amputating one of the antennas of a queen he found was 
uot attended with any perceptible effect. Privation of both anten- 
n *> however, produced very singular consequences. M. Huber cut 
them from a queen whose fecundation had been retarded, so that 
rile laid none hut the eggs of males. From that moment a marked 
alteration in her conduct was seen; she traversed the combs with 
extraordinary rapidity, scarcely bad the workers time to recede be- 
loreher; and, instead of the care which a perfect queen displays in 
depositing her eggs in drose places alone suitable for their exclu-' 
ston, she dropped them at random without selecting proper cells: she 
retired to the most solitary parts of the hive, seeming to avoid die 
bees, and long remained motionless. Several worker?, however, fol- 
lowed her there, and treated her with the most evident respect. She 
seldom required honey from them ; but when dial was the case, she 
directed her trunk with a kind ol uncertain feeling, sometimes on the 
head and sometimes on the limbs of the workers; and if she did reach 
their mouths it was by chant*. Queens leave their hive but once in 
their whole lives, which is for the purpose of obtaining impregnation- 
they remain voluntary prisoners ever afterwards, unless in leading out 
a swarm. This queen, however, seemed eager to escape; she rushed 
owards the opening of the hive, but finding it too small for her exit she 
returned after fruitless exertion. Notwithstanding the symptoms of 
kp lr ! um ^ she was agitated, the workers never ceased to pay 
rp „ • w same attention as they invariably do dieir queens, though she 
received it with indifference. 
orcr PP re be usive that the queen's instinct might he impaired, from her 
another ° n , aufferin S b - v retar «'«l fecundation, M. Huber deprived 
" as C - . ei ■ c °l the antenna', and introduced her into the hive. She 
but noV^i* 1 ^ miU,ral s' ate , and had already proved of great fertility: 
hriuni't] ? le exhibited exactly the same symptoms of agitation and de- 
organs test-f 6 < ! ther lia(1 d .°” c ’ f’mfrt-t queens, possessing all their 
fight repeated , m °st violent animosity against each other; they 
oneatlenwh Ii ; , tllCWOrkerS seem t0 incito ,llem t0 combat, until 
the colonv iU ' hlle theother sumves to preserve and perpetuate 
a • mutilated of the antenna, however, they testily no reci- 
