The BOOK of 
ftruGture, as I have fhewn them in the 
Coffus. 
The fat alfo appears, confifting of little 
round parts, which have been fixed to their 
membrane. 
The lungs are more than all other parts re- 
markable; thefe are two white and tranfparent 
little veffels, fig. 1x. 2 a, confifting of the pul- 
monary tubes dilated, and running together. 
Thefe lungs are entirely membranous, and fall 
together when the air is out of them, which 
is by no means the cafe with the tubes that 
proceed from them, inafinuch as they, con- 
fitting of rings curled around, remain always 
open. The lungs, compofed as I have obferv- 
ed of dilated ramifications of the wind-pipe, 
terminate again in little tubes, Tab. XVII. 
fig. 1x. 66, which are annular ; and thefe, 
then here and there widening, grow into little 
bladders cc, and thefe alfo contract them- 
felves again into little tubes dd. This alter- 
nate mixture of bladders and tubes, however, 
is not fo frequent in the Bee, as in the Rhino- 
ceros Beetle, whofe lungs coniift of numberlefs 
little bladders, which may in fome meafure 
be compared to the pods of the plant called 
Honefty, while yet hanging from their ftalks, 
In Bees the lungs are principally compofed of 
two large bladders*; there are likewife befide 
them fome f{maller, and the remaining part ts 
‘made up of little tubes, which then, as in the 
Worm of the Beetle, or as in the Worm of 
the Bee itfelf, are difperfed over all parts of 
the body ee, &c. fo that the lungs, by the 
intervention of the little tubes which they 
fend out, communicate every where with 
themfelves by mutual inofculations ff 
' When a Bee is opened along the belly, im- 
mediately the fpinal marrow comes in view, 
and this I am now going to defcribe: nor fhall 
I here ftop to mention either thofe parts which 
are feen in this view befides, and have been 
mentioned before, or the extremities of the 
rings, which are membranaceous and termi- 
nated by black edges of a fubftance between 
horn and bone. The fpinal marrow is the prin- 
cipal part, which now prefents itfelf to be con- 
fidered ; it confifts, as in the Silk-worm, of 
nerves and little knots, which owe their rife 
to two nerves as it were proceeding from the 
brain, though there feems to me to be befides 
thefe fome fubftance of a different nature from 
them in the fame place, which, for the fake 
of ftrengthening them, binds the little knot and 
the nerves together: this is feen alfo in Silk- 
worms; nay, and in the human {pecies, thefe 
nerves, which are {wallowed up as it were in 
little knots, are feparated from one another here. 
at a more confiderable diftance, and open much 
wider afunder, than in the marrow of Silk- 
worms ; indeed, the marrow in Bees is almoft 
every where open or fplit into two parts, while 
ih Silk-worms it opens only at diftances. What 
are diftinétly called the nerves by anatomifts, 
are thofe fhoots which arife from the fides of 
thefe little knots. If we trace the courfe of 
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the marrow near the lower rings of the belly, 
there the nerves, {pringing from the little knots, 
are feen, and they difperfe themfelves among 
the miufcles defigned for drawing the fting 
inwards and thrufting itout. ‘The other vifcera 
moft confpicuous in this view, are the ftomach, 
the guts, and fome parts belonging to the 
fting. 
The ftomach, the gullet leading to which is 
moft exceflively narrow, feems to me membra- 
naceous and thin, though it has fome flefhy 
fibres. It is often filled with honey, which is 
eafily diftinguifhed by the tafte ; the pylorus 
follows the ftomach, and after this comes in 
view another little part, fomewhat more pro-~ 
tuberant, and inclining to a colour between 
yellow and red, which however, when more 
accurately infpected, proves to be only fome- 
thing fhut up within the hollow of the inteftine, 
and fhining through in that place. 
Next follows an inteftine, which in fome 
meafure refembles the colon in other animals : 
this gut is much thicker than the ftomach it- 
felf, efpecially when it is full; it has moreover 
{trong mufcular fibres, which, when they act, 
turn it up in many wrinkles and folds , its cavity 
is commonly full of a whitifh matter, which. 
feems to me to refemble the white of an egg 
that has been fteeped for fome time in rectified 
{pirit of wine, and is juft beginning to curdle ; 
or it is like ftarch mixt with a {mall quantity 
of water. If this little gut is pricked with the 
point of a lancet, the matter juft mentioned 
flows out. . 
Further down this gut is confiderably con~ 
tracted and made fmaller: but there, where 
this contraction begins, an infinite number af 
whitith filaments are feen, like thofe which in 
the Coffus I have called faffron-coloured veffels. 
Thefe filaments or minute inteftines are faften- 
ed to the gut, in that part where it is contract- 
ed, as well as elfewhere. This clofe connexion 
of them with the gut is extremely ftrong, and 
is effected by means of the pulmonary tubes, 
which, as they run through the whole body, 
fo in this place particularly they are an infu- 
perable obftacle to the difengaging thefe little 
guts. I believe it would take me up fome 
months to fearch this matter thoroughly to the 
bottom, which truly feems to be by no means 
defpicable, nor unworthy that fo much pains 
fhould be employed upon it, as I fhall hereaf- 
ter fhew. 
The gut, after it has been contracted in the 
manner already mentioned, dilates again on a 
fudden, though here it feems to be altogether 
membranous; but as it is at the fame time 
tranfparent, fome little, whitifh, and oblong 
parts are feen on the outfide, as thining through. 
it: thefe, when the gut is opened, are found 
to be fix in number, and are glandular, and they. 
are not every where uniformly whitifh, butare 
filled with watery and tranfparent qualities. 
Thefe fix little glandular parts fwell ont very 
confiderably on the inner furface of the gut, 
within its hollow, and are there very con/pi« 
cucus 
or, 
