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the combs, or inserts them in the corners or crevices, 
or among the refuse wax and bee-bread on the bottom- 
board, where her progeny can be concealed and nourished 
till they are able to reach the combs. 
In Plate XX., Fig. 57, Mr. Tidd has faithfully de- 
lineated, and Mr. Smith skillfully engraved, the black 
mass of tangled webs, cocoons, excrements, and perfo- 
rated combs, which may be found in a hive where the 
worms have completed their work ot destruction. 
The entrance of the moth into a hive and the ravages 
committed by her progeny, forcibly illustrate the havoc 
which vice often makes when admitted to prey unchecked 
on the precious treasures of the human heart. Only some 
tiny eggs are deposited by the insidious moth, which give 
birth to very innocent-looking worms ; but let them once 
get the control, and the fragrance* of the honied dome is 
soon corrupted, the hum of happy industry stilled, and 
everything useful and beautiful ruthlessly destroyed. 
The honey-bee is not a native of the New World, 
and, when brought here, was called by the Indians the 
consecutively, llko thoso of the queen bee, but are found in tbc ducts, fully and 
perfectly formed, a few days after tho female moth omorgos Bom the cocoon. Sho 
deposits them, usually, in little clusters on tho combs. If we wish to witness tho 
discharge of tho eggs, it is only necessary to seize a female moth, two or threo doys 
old, with linger and thumb, by tho liqad— she will Instantly protrude her ovipo- 
sitor, and tho eggs may then be distinctly scon passing along through the soiul- 
transparent duot. (Seo Plato XIII., Fig. 40, C.) 
“Lost Summor I rearqd a bco-moth larva In a small box. It spun a cocoon, 
from which issued a female moth. Holding her by the head, I allowed her to 
deposit eggs on a piece of honoy-coinb. Threo wcoks afterwards, I examined tho 
comb, and found on It somo web and two lnrvse. Tho eggs woro all shrtvollcd nud 
dried up, except a few which wore perforated, and from which, I suppose, tho 
larvm emerged. This appears to bo a case of true parthenogenesis in tho bee 
moth ." — Translated from Dn. Donhoff by S. Waonkb. 
As among hundreds of specimens furnished to Mr. Tidd very few males wore 
noticed, I conjectured that tho eggs of thoso females would hatch without impreg- 
nation, and took measures to havo Dr. Joseph Lcidy investigate tho subject I* 
seems, howovor, that in this mutter, our Gorman brethren havo tho priority 
• Tho cilor of tho moth and larvu) is very otl'onBivo. 
