BEES AND WASPS— GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 181 
their absence. Fabre carried the dead or paralysed 
grasshopper to a considerable distance from the hole. 
On coming out the insect searched about until it found 
its prey. It then again carried it to the mouth of its 
burrow, and again laid it down while it once more went 
in to see that all was right at home. Again Fabre 
removed the grasshopper, and so on for forty times in 
succession — the sphex never omitting to go through its 
fixed routine of examining the interior of its burrow 
every time that it brought the prey to its mouth. 
Mr. Mivart, in his 6 Lessons from Nature,’ points to the 
instinct of this animal in the stinging of the ganglion of 
its prey as one that cannot be explained on Mr. Darwin’s 
theory concerning the origin of instincts. In my next 
work, which will have to deal with this theory, I shall 
consider Mr. Mivart’s difficulty, and also the difficulty first 
pointed out by Mr. Darwin himself as to why neuter 
insects, separated as they appear to be from the possi- 
bility of communicating by heredity' any instinctive 
acquirements of the individual to the species, should 
present any instincts at all. 
General Intelligence . 
Beginning with Sir John Lubbock’s observations on 
this head, I shall first quote his statements with regard to 
way-finding - 
I have found, he says, that some bees are much more intel- 
ligent in this respect than others. A bee which I had fed 
several times, and which had flown about in the room, found its 
way out of the glass in a quarter of an hour, and when put in a 
second time came out at once. Another bee, when I closed the 
postern door, used to come round to the honey through an 
open window. 
Bees seem to me much less clever in finding things than I 
tiad expected. One day (April 14, 1872), when a number of 
them were very busy on some barberries, I put a saucer with 
some honey between two bunches of flowers; these were re- 
peatedly visited, and were so close that there was hardly room 
for the saucer betweeen them, yet from 9.30 to 3.30 not a 
single bee took any notice of the honey. At 3.30 I put some 
