[824] Illiger _Mag._ i. 488.
[825]
"Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow horn,
Blithe to salute the sunny smile of morn.
O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course,
And many a stream allures her to its source.
'Tis noon, 'tis night. That eye so finely wrought,
Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought,
Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind;
Its orb so full, its vision so confined!
Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell?
Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell?
With conscious truth retrace the mazy clue
Of varied scents that charm'd her as she flew?
Hail, MEMORY, hail! thy universal reign
Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain."
[826] See above, p. 185 and 495--.
[827] If a hive be removed out of its ordinary position, the first
day after this removal, the bees do not fly to a distance without
having visited all the neighbouring objects. The queen does the same
thing when flying into the air for fecundation. Huber, _Recherches
sur les Fourmis_, 100.
[828] See the account of the mode in which the Favignanais increase
the number of their hives by thus dividing them. Huber, ii. 459.
[829] See above, p. 66.
[830] Ibid. p. 199.
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
[Illustration: _Plate V_]
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.
PLATE IV.
HYMENOPTERA.
Fig. 1. Sirex Gigas.
2. Evania appendigaster magnified. 3. Nomada Marshamella.
DIPTERA.
4. Pedicia rivosa. 5. Sericomyia Lapponum.
PLATE V.
Fig. 1. Oxypterum Kirbyanum. _Leach._ magnified.
APHANIPTERA.
2. Pulex irritans magnified.
APTERA.
3. Ricinus Pavonis magnified. 4. Aranea marginata.
_Donovan._ 5. Chelifer cancroides magnified. 6. Scolopendra
forficata.
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