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structure of the labouring bee is curiously adapted to the offices it has to perform: the tongue is of a peculiar construction, extremely large in proportion to the size of the creature: in length it consists of three parts; one, its ar ticulation witli the head, which has some

:f finny to the larynx in the human body; the next, the body of the tongue, formed of a kind of base, which supports the true tongue: this base is of a horny substance, in which there is a groove, and it is united with the larynx. On the end of this is fixed the true tongue, with its different parts. rI11is apparatus is enclosed in two horny scales; each of these is likewise composed of two parts, or scales, one articulated with the other. The mechanism of thiscurious member is so complete and minute, (consisting, according to Barbut, of twenty parts,) that 1 fear I cannot give you a further account of it, unless by a sketch of its figure, with which I

Till endeavour to furnish you. The whole apparatus can be folded up into a very small compass, under the head and neck. The form ation of the esophagus terminates in a fine, transparent bag, which is the immediate re ceiver of whatever is swallowed: from this bag the food is either carried further into the stout mach, for the nourishment of the animal, or is regurgitated for other purposes. This bag, or

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