69. i THE ATS TOR YOR SEL s. 
honey-dew. Of which more in the next chapter, where 
will be confidered the agreeable, and moft commodious 
habitations they build for themfelves, both as magazines 
for their treafure, and nurferies for their young ; the ma- 
terials they employ therein, together with the ends and 
ufes of the fame, as alfo the method wherein the entire 
ftruCture is accomplifhed. 
The Drones owe their original to the fame caufe 
with the Honey-Bees; generated after the fame manner, 
and with the fame ci‘cumftances, except in different ma- 
trixes or cells, defignedly built for theminthe Drone- 
comb: of which there is one in each hive; often two; 
and fometimes I have found three. 
At other times I have obferved the fame comb em- 
pofed partly of cells for the Honey-Bees, and the other 
part of the cells for the Drones ; fuch a one I faw in an 
hive in Oézober 1743. But it is no new thing; I have 
feen it frequently ; and many more, no doubt, have ‘gyi 
the fame. 
But as there is fo great an identity betwixt the gene= 
ration of thefe two forts, it would be a vain and needlefs 
repetition to run over the preceeding particulars. 
The production of the royal iffue, or the regents, is 
more peculiat, and very different from the other two. 
Generally near the edges, and at the bottom of the 
combs, and fometimes from the fides of an honey-comb, 
are ereCted feveral oblong orbicular cells, of great 
firength, efpecially that part which is it’s beers in Mss 
thefe princeffes are bred, 
