at 1/51 of the whole expense; and he shows that it might have been
one-fifth if the bees had no other circumstances to attend to; but he
concludes, that if it is not very sensible in every cell, it may be
considerable in the whole of a comb, on account of the mutual setting
of the two opposite orders of cells. Huber, _Nouvelles Observations_,
&c. ii. 34.
[831] _Memoirs of the Wernerian Society_, ii. 259. This however has
been denied, and seems inconsistent with the account given by Huber
hereafter detailed.
[832] Vide _Mon. Ap. Ang._ t. 12. * * e. 1. neut. fig. 19.
[833] Reaum. v. 424.
[834] _Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles, par_ François Huber,
ii. 101-288. I have observed the bees collecting propolis in the
spring from the buds of _Populus balsamifera_.
[835] Lindley in _R. Military Chronicle_, March 1815. 449.
[836] _Apis._ **. e. 2. K.
[837] Huber, _Linn. Tr._ vi. 215-298.
[838] Reaum. vi. 7-10.
[839] _Memoirs of the Wernerian Society_, ii. 260.
[840] Reaumur says decaying wood, vi. 182; but White asserts (and my
own observations confirm his opinion) that wasps obtain their paper
from _sound_ timber; hornets, only from that which is _decayed_.
_White's Nat. Hist._ by Markwick, ii. 228.
[841] Reaum. vi. Mem. 6.
[842] _Annales du Mus. d'Hist. Nat._ i. 289.
[843] vi. t. 19. f. i. 2.
[844] Rösel Vesp. t. 7. f. 8.
[845] Rösel II. viii. 30.
[846] Reaum. vi. 224.
[847] The most elevated of the pyramids of Egypt is not more than
600 feet high, which, setting the average height of man at only five
feet, is not more than 120 times the height of the workmen employed.
Whereas the nests of the Termites being at least twelve feet high,
and the insects themselves not exceeding a quarter of an inch in
stature, their edifice is upwards of 500 times the height of the
builders; which, supposing them of human dimensions, would be more
than half a mile. The shaft of the Roman aqueducts was lofty enough
to permit a man on horseback to travel in them.
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.
VOL. I.
PLATE I.
COLEOPTERA.
Fig. 1. Calosoma Sycophanta.
2. Goerius cyaneus.
3. Siagonium quadricorne, Nov. Gen. _K._ magnified.
4. Malthinus.
5. Molorchus.
6. Meloe.
DERMAPTERA.
7. Labidura gigantea.
PLATE II.
STREPSIPTERA.
1. Xenos Peckii. _Linn. Trans._
ORTHOPTERA.
2. Gryllotalpa vulgaris.
3. Blatta germanica.
HEMIPTERA.
4. Ledra aurita.
5. Pentatoma rufipes.
PLATE III.
LEPIDOPTERA.
1. Lycæna Hippothoe mas?
2. Sesia asiliformis.
3. Euprepia pulchella.
TRICHOPTERA.
4. Phryganea varia?
NEUROPTERA.
5. Libellula cancellata.
6. Raphidia notata, Fab. _Mantiss._
[Illustration: Plate II]
[Illustration: Plate III]
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been fixed throughout.
Inconsistent hyphenation is as in the original.
Errata listed in Volume III, have already been made.