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THORAX, LEGS, AND WINGS, 
The pro-thorax is reduced to a thin flexible neck, 
connecting it with the head. The thorax is thickly 
covered with downy hairs, and on the under side of 
the worker they are long and feathered (Fig. 5, d) for 
the purpose of holding pollen. On the thorax of the 
drone the hairs are short and very stiff, whilst in the 
queen there are not nearly so many underneath and 
between the legs as there are in the worker. 
The Legs. 
The bee has three pairs of legs. The first, or 
anterior legs, are attached to the pro-thorax ; the 
intermediate to the meso-thorax ; and the posterior or 
hind legs to the meta-thorax. 
The three pairs of legs not only differ among them- 
selves, but are also different from each other both in 
the drone, the worker, and the queen. 
The muscles moving them are situated within the 
thorax. 
By referring to Fig. 15, a, which represents the 
third leg of a worker, it will be seen that it is made 
up of nine joints : the first one {a), attached to the 
thorax, is the coxa, or hip joint; the trochanter (b) is 
a small conical joint forming the connexion between 
this and the next joint, the femur (c) or thigh ; the 
tibia {d) or shank, and the tarsus, or foot. This is 
composed of five joints {e, f g, h, i), diminishing in 
length from the first joint (e), which is as long as 
all the rest put together. In the anterior pair of 
legs the first joints are called pahnce, or palms, and 
in the four other legs, planice, or soles; the other 
