[125] Apis **. e. l. K. Dr. Bevan has lately published a very interesting work on the Honey Bee, which the reader will do well to consult.

[126] Vol. I. [481].

[127] Judges xiv. 8, 9.

[128] See Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. v. c. 22. Virgil. Georgic. l. iv.; and Mouffet, 12—.

[129] Aristot. ubi supr. c. 21. De Generat. Animal. l. iii. c. 10, where there is some curious reasoning upon this subject.

[130] Bonnet, x. 199— 236—.

[131] Hist. Animal. l. v. c. 22.

[132] De Generat. Animal. l. iii. c. 10.

[133] Œuvr. x. 194—.

[134] Bonnet, x. P. Huber in Linn. Trans. vi. 283. Reaumur (v. 373) observes that some queens are much larger than others; but he attributes this difference of their size to the state of the eggs in their body.