to it. Swammerdam seems to consider this pallet as the
characteristic part of the male.

'Though the parts we have described are the most conspicuous in the
male, they are neither those which protrude first, nor when
protruded are the most remarkable. On viewing from the opposite edge
of the lentil, forming the division of the two great scaly plates, a
sac or canal, k. proceeding from the posterior part of the lentil,
there is distinctly visible the body u, which we call the arc; where
there are five transverse hairy bands of a yellow colour, while the
rest is white. This arc seems out of the membranaceous canal because
it is covered only by a very transparent membrane. One end almost
reaches the lenticular body, and the other terminates where the
membranaceous canal joins the folded yellow membranes, m. which form
a species of sac, that is applied to the sides of the aperture,
adapted for the genital organs passing through. These reddish
membranes are those that appear first on pressure, and form this
elongated portion, at whose end is a kind of hairy mask. Finally,
with the sac formed by the reddish membranes, there are connected
two appendages, c. c. of reddish yellow, and red at the end, s.
These are what appear externally like horns.{P}'

The lenticular substance, l. i. provided with each scaly lamina, are the
only parts of those described by M. de Reaumur, that we have found
engaged in the organs of our queens. The canal, r, by Swammerdam
denominated the root of the penis, breaks in copulation; and we have
seen its fragments at the place where it unites to the end of the
lentil, l. towards the anterior extremity; but we have found no traces
of the canal, k, formed of involuted membranes, which in the body of the
male proceeds from the posterior end of the lentil, l. i. nor of the
plaited pallet, p. adhering to this canal, called by Swammerdam the
penis from its resemblance to that of other animals, though he is not of
opinion that this point, which is not perforated, can perform the
functions of a real penis, and hold the principal part in generation.
The canal, k, therefore, and all appertaining to it, must break at i,
quite close to the posterior part of the lentil, since we found no
remains of the lenticular bodies left by the fecundating males, in the
body of our females. The canal, r, which Swammerdam calls the root of
the penis, wi