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ON THE ANATOMY OF 
of the Bee, the real tongue, now described, has been 
erroneously confounded with the ligula or central 
piece of the proboscis, afterwards to be described. 
The upper jaw (Wood-Cut, page 31, fig. 1. c, c.) 
of the Bee, as of all other insects, is divided verti- 
cally into two, thus forming, in fact, a pair of jaws 
under the name of mandibles. They move horizon- 
tally, are furnished with teeth, and servo to the little 
labourers as tools, with which they perform a variety 
of operations, as manipulating the wax, constructing 
the combs, and polishing them, seizing their enemies, 
destroying the drones, & c. The lower jaws or maxilla;, 
divided vertically as the others, form, together with 
the labium or under lip, the complicated apparatus 
of the Proboscis. Its parts are represented in the 
following figure. 
