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 Réaumur). 8. Helminthomorphous or apodal larva of a bee (Réaumur). [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS. Frontispiece.--Coloured view of Geo. Neighbour and Sons' Apiary. Plate I.--Italian Alp Queen, Drone and Worker Bees, with Anatomical Drawings _Facing page_ 34 Plate II.--Dissected Bee, with Illustrations of various Members _Facing page_ 86 Common Cottager's Hive 108 Neighbours' Crystal Palace Skep 109 The Cottager's Hive 110 Improved Cottager's Hive 112 Improved Cottage Hive (No. 5) 113 Improved Cottage Hive (No. 6), no windows 119 The Ladies' Observatory Hive 120 Nutt's Collateral Hive 123 Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (wood) 135 Woodbury's Single Bar Frame as taken from hive 135 Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (straw) 136 Woodbury's Bar-frame Hive (glass) 138 Neighbours' New Frame Hive (wood) 139 Neighbours' New Frame Hive (straw), with Frame Super 142 Neighbours' Cottager's Frame Hive (wood) 143 Neighbours' Philadelphia Frame Hive 144 Stewarton or Ayrshire Hive 147 Neighbours' Outdoor Unicomb Hive 158 Neighbours' Indoor Unicomb Hive 162 Bee House for two Hives--Front view 166 Bee House for two Hives--Back view 167 Bee House for twelve Hives--Front view 169 Bee House for twelve Hives--Back view 170 Ornamented Zinc Cover 171 Zinc Cover for Cottager's Hive 172 Wooden Cover for Frame Hive 174 Neighbours' New Frame Hive, with Cover, Stand, and Pair of Divisional Supers--Back view 175 Neighbours' New Frame Hive, ditto--Closed front view 176 Neighbours' New Frame Hive and Frame Super (glass), with large Cover and on Stand--Front view 178 Neighbours' New Frame Hive--Front view, closed 178 Neighbours' New Frame Hive (No. 81). Wood with Straw Crown, and Large Window in close-fitting Cover and Stand 179