DESCRIPTION OK QUEENS, WORKERS AND DRONES. 
The pure queens differ in color from the queens of 
the black species : the color is of a peculiar hue, and 
many persons in describing one individual queen fre- 
quently vary in the terms employed in their descrip- 
tion. On examining a large number of queens in their 
native home, also a very large number raised in Ger- 
many and America from queens of undoubted purity, 
I found that the largest portion of them were (accord- 
to my term or name employed,) of a leather colored or 
dark orange hue. Some, however, vary, being of a 
lighter hue. Although such queens may be more at- 
tractive in appearance, they are, as far as my experi- 
ence extends, by no means the most desirable as 
breeders ; they, like the pale-faced individuals of the 
human family, seem to be weak, less prolific, and, in 
many instances, their eggs will not hatch. Several em- 
inent bee-keepers seem to have experienced similar 
failures. Mr. A. Grimm says : “ Conversing with 
Prof. Mono, (of Italy), one day, about the beautiful 
golden colored queens sold in America, he related the 
following:— ‘ We had a pretty nice queen this spring, 
and intended to breed from her, as our customers in 
Germany often ordered nice colored queens ; but we 
had so many crippled and deficient queens from her 
progeny, a number of which never laid an egg, and the 
eggs of those that did, never hatched, that we re- 
