Plate II — Page 31
| 1. | Body of a bee divested of antennæ, legs, and wings, showing the anatomy of the thorax and natural position of the stomach. |
| 5* | The eyes. |
| a. | The ocelli. |
| bbb. | The muscles that move the wings. |
| c. | The external covering of the thorax. |
| ee. | The bases of the wings. |
| d. | The honey-bag, or first stomach. |
| f. | The ventricle, or true stomach, distended with food. |
| g. | The rectum. |
| h. | The biliary vessels. |
| i. | Portion of the membranous tissue lining the inner surface of the segments, and enclosing the stomach and intestines. |
| q. | The stomach emptied of its contents, to show the muscular contraction of the ventricle. |
| d. | The honey-bag. |
| f. | The ventricle. |
| g. | The rectum. |
| h. | The biliary vessels. |
| i. | The ligula, or tongue, and its appendages. |
| l. | The base of the ligula. |
| m. | Maxillary palpi. |
| n. | The maxilla. |
| o. | The labial palpi. |
| p. | The tongue. |
| 4. | The sting and its muscles. |
| g. | The attachment of the muscles to the outer covering of the abdomen. |
| r. | Muscles that move the sting. |
| s. | Curved base of the sheaths that enclose the sting. |
| t. | Poison-bag. |
| u. | Glands connected with the poison-bag. |
| v. | Honey-plates covering the muscles r, and to which the sheaths of the stings are attached at s. |
| **. | Base of sting connecting with the poison-bag t. |
| 4*. | Magnified view of point of sting, showing the serrations on each side. |
| 5. | Three hexagonal prisms of a bee’s eye (Swammerdam). |
| 6. | Abdominal plates of the bee, detached to show the wax-cells. |
| 7. | Eggs of bee, natural size, and magnified (from Reaumur) |
| 8. | Helminthimorphous, or apodal larva of a bee (Reaumur). |