CATALOGUE 



BEES OF GEEAT BRITAIN. 



Tribe IV. ANTHOPHILA, Lair. 



PIEZATA, PT., Fabr. 



Consisting of two sexes in all the solitary species, males and 

 females, to which another is added in the social ones, usually 

 called a neuter, abortive female, or worker; the females and 

 workers, excepting in the case of the hive and parasitic bees, 

 furnished with apparatus for conveying pollen, and armed with 

 a sting ; possessing antennae, twelve-articulate in the females and 

 workers, and thirteen-articulate in the males'; the abdomen of 

 the females having six segments or rings, that of the males con- 

 sisting of seven ; all possessing four variously veined wings ; two 

 compound eyes placed laterally on the head, and three simple 

 eyes (stemmata) on the vertex ; the tongue obtuse, lanceolate, or 

 filiform; all in their larva state feeding on pollen or honey, 

 stored up by the parent. Some parasitical, consuming the food 

 stored up for the legitimate inhabitant of the nest. 



