NATURAL HISTORY VOCABULARY 



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Fu-hani (fii-haiii, or fu- 



hai) 

 (;i)ali (i,^l)ali) . . . , 



Falo (falesia, pi.) 



Fuli (fuli) 



Gili (gilisia, pi.) . 

 (xDWn-pupu (gown-pupu- 



isia) 

 Knwo (kovvuisia) . 

 Kpaina (kpaiiie) . 



Ndnwo (doiigesia) 



INIbombolo (mbomboli) . 

 Ndo-gowo (ndo - gowo- 



isia) 

 Ngelemahviisia 

 Pupu (pupuisia) . 



Note. — Ants are usually 

 Definite pi 



INSECTS 



Ants 



Lit. Living thing. Insect gener- 

 ally. Ants. 



Big black ant, winged. Comes to 

 tlie lamp at night. 



Red ant. Makes its nest in leaves 

 folded. Very painful sting. 

 See Ndowo. 



Brown ant, winged. Comes out 

 after rain and drops its wings. 



White ants, i.e. termites. 



Big aiits, head and tail l)lack, 

 middle section brown. 



Driving ants, blackish [Anomina). 



The big black stinking ant {Palto- 

 thyreus pestilentius). 



Red ants that build a house of 

 leaves joined together. They 

 sting. Some Mendes confuse 

 them with Falesia, and say 

 Falesia are black and Don- 

 gesia red ; others the reverse. 



A black ant that stinks. 



Reddish travelling ants. (Ndo = 

 underground.) 



Small black travelling ants. 



Very small ants, red. Also applied 

 generally to any small ants. 



referred to in the plural number, 

 ural suflSx is " -sia." 



Flies, Wasps, kc. 



Ndi (ndingesia) . . . Flies generally. The house fly. 

 Fo (foi) A big'black biting fly. The " Man- 

 grove-fly " and "Tsetse." 

 Mamu-vo (mamu-V(ji) . " Mangrove-fly." 



