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many in an unfinished state, the substance called bee-bread is found. After a certain time, the eggs produce maggots, which sup ply new work fbr the labourers, as on them devolves the task of feeding and nursing the young progeny. Like many other insects, they cast their coats; but how often seems unknown. They sometimes remove the Eggs, and also the maggots, from one cell to another. When the maggot is grown so large as nearly to fill the cell, it requires no more food, and, being ready to change to the chrysalis state, the bees cover the month of the cell, in a convex form, with a substance of a light brown colour. The maggot within is not idle; it lines the receptacl' that contains it with a silk, which forms a case for the chrysaiis

if observation did not teach otherwise, it would be natural to suppose that the labourers would feed the young maggots with honey; but it is more probable that they are nourished with bee-bread, a substance that they preserve with great care.. This is that precious yellow dust that you may have often seen adhering to their legs, of which they despoil various plants, but not without giving preference to some beyond others. It is amusing to see them deposit this treasure in the cell: they are some time in fixing upon a cell; when they

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