THE BEE NATION, 
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Stated by Leuckart, honey and digested pollen from the 
chyle stomach were given in the form of chyle. The 
larva partially floats in this pap, which is white and at 
first insipid, and being able to reach the food with 
very little movement it grows rapidly. It also, be- 
sides taking it through its mouth, absorbs it through 
that part of the skin in contact with the food. 
The illustration (Fig i, d) shows the development 
of the larva in the five days it is attaining its full 
growth. During this time, Newport and Vogel 
(i66) have shown that it casts its skin, like all other 
insects, several times. Newport (121) says: — 
‘ But it is not merely the external covering which is 
thrown off during these changes ; the whole internal 
lining of the alimentary canal also comes away with the 
skin, as was formerly noticed by Swammerdam, and 
repeatedly observed by ourselves and others. The lining 
of the mouth and gullet, and that of the mandibles, is 
detached with the covering of the head, and that of the 
larger intestines with the skin of the posterior part of the 
body ; and besides these, the lining of the tracheal tubes 
comes away. The lining of the stomach itself, or that 
portion of the alimentary canal which extends from the 
termination of the oesophagus to the insertion of the 
so-called biliary vessels, is also detached, and becomes 
completely disintegrated, and appears to constitute part 
of the mass voided by the insect on assuming the imago 
state.’ 
This has been corroborated by Bonnet, Burmeister 
(17) and others, although recently given out as a 
new discovery. Before the last moult the cell is 
sealed over with a porous convex capping (Fig. i, n), 
