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290 had often seen "the leetle chaps collaring the big chaps;" evidently alluding to the massacre of the drones by the working-bees.

The bees of Guadaloupe are decidedly of a different character from the European, and are probably of the genus Melipona. This constitutes, according to the system of Illiger and Latreille, a genus distinct from the genus Apis properly so called. In this last, the first articulation of the hinder tarsi is square-shaped, while in those of the other it is triangular. From some minute variation of anatomical structure, a portion of the genus Melipona has been formed into a distinct one, under the denomination of Trigones. Latreille specifies the mandibles as a distinctive character, and classes under the genus Trigones those whose mandibles are toothed, and under that of Melipona, such as have these organs smooth. Their habits also differ; the former building their nest in the open air, suspended from the branches of trees; the latter constructing their