=Cheshire, Frank R.= Bees and bee-keeping. i, Scientific, London, 1886, Pls. and Figs.
=Lang, Arnold.= Text-book of comparative anatomy. i, pp. 426–508, 1891, many Figs.
=Kolbe, H. J.= Einführung in die Kenntniss der Insekten. 8º, pp. 709, 324 figs., Berlin, 1893.
=Sharp, David.= The Cambridge natural history. Insecta, i, 8º, pp. 83–584, 1895, Figs. 47–371.
Also the works of Bos, Chabrier, Cholodkowsky, Comstock, Dewitz, Eaton, Erichson, Gerstaecker, Girard, Grassi, Hagen, Haase, Kellogg, Knoch, Lacordaire, Latreille, Leuckart, Lendenfeld, Lowne, Lubbock, Mayer, Meinert, F. Müller, Osten-Sacken, Pagenstecher, Reinhard, Schaum, Schiödte, Scudder, J. B. Smith, Spinola, Stein, Weismann, Wood-Mason.
FIG. 24.—Presumed larva of Nemoptera (_Necrophilus arenarius_), Pyramids of Egypt.—After Roux, from Sharp. ]
While the head is originally composed of probably not less than six segments, these are in the adult insect fused together into a capsule or hard chitinous box, the _epicranium_, with no distinct traces of the primitive segments. The head contains the brain and accessory ganglia, the mouth or buccal cavity, also the air-sacs in many winged forms, and gives support to the external organs of sense, the antennæ, and to the buccal appendages, the larger part of the interior being filled with the muscles moving these structures. The solid walls of the head serve as a lever or support for the attachment of these muscles, especially those of the mandibles. Thus there is a correlation between the large size of the mandibles of the soldier white ants and ants, the head being correspondingly large to accommodate the great mandibular muscles. The other extreme is seen in the larva of Necrophilus (Fig. 24), with its long slender neck and diminutive head.
=The clypeus.=—This is that part of the head situated in front of the epicranium, and anterior to the eyes, forming the roof of the posterior part of the mouth, and is, as embryology shows, probably a tergal sclerite. It varies greatly in shape and size in the different orders of insects. It is often divided into two parts, the _clypeus posterior_ and _clypeus anterior_, or which may be designated as the _post-_ and _ante-clypeus_ (Figs. 29, _B_).