BEES 



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dense, close bands of whitish hair encircling them. 

 They nearly all occur in July and August, and are to 



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B 



Fig. 10. Front view of mouth parts of Boinbus (long-pointed tongue) 



B., 'bouton,' or ladle-shaped tip of tongue, found only iu the higher- 

 forms. G.M., galea (lacinia of some authors) of maxilla. L.P., 

 labial palp. M., mentum. M.P., maxillary palp. PG., para- 

 glossa. S., stipes of maxilla. T., tongue. 



be found visiting flowers of heath, ragwort, chamo- 

 mile and other plants ; while they make their nests in 

 the ground, generally in a rather hard sand-bank. 



