Produced by Turgut Dincer, Stephen Rowland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s notes: Italic text is denoted _thus_. See further notes at the end of this volume. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE LATE JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S., AND H. T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. VOL. III. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLV. CONTENTS. OF THE THIRD VOLUME. BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS. CHAP. Page 1. The extreme smallness of insects 1 2. Whether insects respire, and whether they have blood 3 3. The bodies of insects 4 4. Bees 5 5. The order displayed in the works of bees _ib._ 6. The meaning of the terms commosis, pissoceros, and propolis 6 7. The meaning of erithace, sandaraca, or cerinthos 7 8. What flowers are used by the bees in their work _ib._ 9. Persons who have made bees their study 8 10. The mode in which bees work _ib._ 11. Drones 10 12. The qualities of honey 11 13. Where the best honey is produced 12 14. The kinds of honey peculiar to various places _ib._ 15. How honey is tested. Ericæum. Tetralix, or sisirum 14 16. The reproduction of bees 16 17. The mode of government of the bees 18 18. Happy omens sometimes afforded by a swarm of bees 19 19. The various kinds of bees 20 20. The diseases of bees 21 21. Things that are noxious to bees 22 22. How to keep bees to the hive 23 23. Methods of renewing the swarm _ib._ 24. Wasps and hornets: animals which appropriate what belongs to others 24 25. The bombyx of Assyria 25 26. The larvæ of the silk-worm—who first invented silk cloths _ib._ 27. The silk-worm of Cos—how the Coan vestments are made 26 28. Spiders; the kinds that make webs; the materials used by them in so doing 27 29. The generation of spiders 29 30. Scorpions _ib._