26 NATURAL HISTORY VOCABULARY 



Ndivo-vo (ndivo-Vdi) 

 Kalo(kaloi) . . . 

 Puje-vgfo (pvije-vgfoi) 



Fundi (pimdisia) 

 Ndogbo-li (n(logi)O-li) . 



Gumu (L'umuisia) 

 Dumbeka (dumbeke) 



Kpakpadia (kpakpadie) 

 Mbele-lnkpe (mbele- 



lukpei), or mbe- 



hikpei 

 Nja-nenye (nja-nenye) 



Komi (Komisia) . 

 Boboni (bnbuni) . 



Dagba (daglie) 

 Higbo (bigl)oi) 



Bongbo (bongboi) 



Dnmba (dombe) . 

 Pewe (pewei) . . 

 Jimo (jimoi) . . . 

 Mniwulo (nioiwuloisia) 



A fly that bores a hole in a tree. 

 It bites. 



Large green or black flies. They 

 may also be called Fni. 



An insect that flying into the eye 

 causes a smarting pain like 

 that of pepper (puje). 



M()S(putoes. 



Lit. Bush-fly. A very big fly, like 

 a house fly. 



Sandflies ( Chironoviidae). 



Firefly ( Diaphanes leucopijua — Mala- 

 roderviidae — Lamj^yridae). 



Dragon-fly. 



A mosquito-like fly with long legs. 

 Named from its swinging 

 motion. 



A fly that buzzes in circles on the 

 water. 



Bees. 



A very small bee that makes a 

 hanging tunnel-entrance to its 

 house. 



A very small bee {Melipuna, 

 ? Trigona). 



A very large black wasp. Msikes a 

 white hanging comb, often sus- 

 pended from a nail. [Sphegidae 

 — Eumenes or Pelopaeus.) 



A mason wasp. Builds a mud- 

 house on a wall. Brownish 

 with a yellow stripe on the 

 side of the abdomen. 



A wasp that burrows in the ground. 



A mason wasp. 



A small yellow wasp. 



A'^ery small winged insects that 

 build a honey-combed house 

 on the Seme tree. An excre- 

 scence is formed, which is full 

 of cells. 



