The Sovertign, or Oueen-Bee deferibed, 6s 
. aft, with her belly upwards, which prefently prefents 
her to the eye of a diligent and curious obferver. 
The populous, which are the laborious and moft nu- 
merous part of this body politick, are the fecond fort or 
clafs. Thefe with fome are accounted the males; but 
the more prevailing opinion is, that they are females; 
tho’ in truth they are of neither fex. But having alrea- 
dy given fo particular and full account of this corps, 
there is no occafion to add any thing further upon this 
head. 
The Drones compofe the third and laft clafs, which 
are about one third larger and longer than the other. 
The head is round; the eyes full, and form the greateft 
part of the face ; the tongue is fhort, and the belly differs 
from the other two, being broader and much more ob- 
tufe ; of a darker colour than théreft, and thicker cloath- 
ed: their voice likewife louder, and in flight making a 
much greater noife, whereby it is eafy to diftinguifh them 
from all the reft; and to fay when they travel abroad, 
and when they return, tho’. unfeen. At their firft ap- 
pearance I have often heard the found, before I have dif- 
cerned the infect. 
They are alfo eafily conquered, expelled, and flain by 
the commons, having no fting by which to defend them- 
felves againft thefe imperious dames.* 
Thefe is urged by the phylofopher as an argument a- 
gainft the agency ofthe Drones in generation ; who fays, 
it agrees not with reafon, that the Bees fhould be fe- 
males, 
* Though the Males generally mafter the Females, mt bere the Fe. 
snales have the Preheminence, Purt, 
