66 ‘THE HIST.ORY.OF BEES, 
_Mr. Rufden alfo affirms, that feveral of thefe princes 
have at firft a fpot upon their foreheads, not unlike a_ 
diadem ; which he very probably took, as well as other 
things, from Pliny.* But of all the numbers J have 
viewed and examined, for the fpace of fo many years 
(including 30 or 40 the laft feafon) I could never ob- 
ferve any fuch ftar. Mr. Purchas fays the fame, and is 
pofitive there is no fuch fpot. And yet (pag. 31.) tells 
us, he hath feen Bees with crefts, or taflels upon their 
heads of different colours; which muft be epic more 
than adventitious or accidental. 
” Again, the Sovereign may be eafily diftinguifhed from 
all her fubjeéts by her form and fhape ; being larger and 
longer than the labouring Bees, efpecially in her hinder 
part, which is by far more taper than all the other, ter- 
minating in a much fharper point; nature having given’ 
her this peculiar form, in order the more readily to teach 
the bottom of the cells, where the eggs are depofited for 
tue propagation of the fpecies, | 
Finally, by her colour alfo fhe may be difcovered, 
and by this I have more frequently found her, than by 
any other marks of diftin&tion. Her upper parts are lit- 
tle, if at all, different from the Honey-Bees, but her bel- 
ly and legs are of a very deep yellow, much heat 
the pureft and the richeft gold, 
When the Bees of a fingle ftock are dropped into an 
empty hive (as hereafter directed ) to be united with thofe 
of another ftock, the Queen generally falls one of the 
laft, 
© Phin, U. 11. ¢. 164 In fronte macula queda: Diademate Aculeo pratt 
Pimulo armatus,meeCandicans. 
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