NEW OPINIONS ON WAX. 
of secreting waxj scales of it* ran¬ 
ged in pairs* are contained in minute 
receptacles under the lower segments 
of the abdomen* and situated to the 
right and left of the angular projec¬ 
tion. The conformation of the same 
part of queens and males is very dif¬ 
ferent* below the rings of which, no 
scales subsist.—-The existence of the 
organs above described, and the scales 
.seen under the different gradations* 
induce os to believe them appropri¬ 
ated to the secretion of wax. But in 
common with all other animal and ve¬ 
getable secretions* the means by which 
this is accompli shed, seams to be care¬ 
fully veiled by Nature. 
