. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 56 AUSTRALASIAN work its way into the small corolla-tubes of some flowers and so reach the nectaries at bottom. A pair of these wmgs has been shown in Fig. 7 to illustrate the arrangement of the_ cells or subdivisions of the membrane, upon referring to which it will be seen that the tAvo wings, fully expanded, look as if they were stitched together for a certain lengt
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 56 AUSTRALASIAN work its way into the small corolla-tubes of some flowers and so reach the nectaries at bottom. A pair of these wmgs has been shown in Fig. 7 to illustrate the arrangement of the_ cells or subdivisions of the membrane, upon referring to which it will be seen that the tAvo wings, fully expanded, look as if they were stitched together for a certain length. This apparent stitching is a line of about twenty booklets upon the front edge of the under wing, of which a greatly magnified view is given below :—. Fig. 14—HOOKIETS OF WINGS. Nine of the booklets are shown in the lower diagram, while the upper one shows, on a still larger scale, the last booklet of the row, and a line of strong bristly hairs, which furnishes the margin of the wing where the booklets cease. Mr. Cheshire explains that "These four wings, though individually small, collectively present sufficient surface for a rapid flight, vs^hich is greatly aided by a beautiful arrangement for locking the tvi^o pairs into one. The front wing is folded under at its posterior edge, and as the wing is advanced to bring it into position for flying this fold catches into a line of hooks from twenty to twenty-three in number, which turn upwards from the front edge of the back ; Can anything more admirable than this arrangement be imagined 1 THE LEGS. The legs, six in number, spring, like the wings, from the thorax, which is the chief seat of muscular power. It is, indeed, one mass of muscles, with the exception of the narrow. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hopkins, Isaac, 18
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