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INDEX. 



Bees, genera of, 13 



glands of, 76 



grubs of, 19, 23, 238 



hearing of, 107 



hermaphrodite, 208 



how to free, from hairs, 1 2 1 



humble, 12 



not always able to fly, 146 



not exceptionally framed, 246 



number of species of, 8 



nurses, peculiarities of, 19, 81 



ocelli of, 116 



rose cutters, 9 

 ■ silk of, 21, 73, 175, 241 



thorax of, 120, 238 



unloading nectar, 18, 67 



unloading pollen, 18, 130 



voice of, 149 



void faeces on the wing, j 48 



walking on glass, 125 

 Blackberry, 326 

 Bombi, 12 



Bombus muscorum, 13 

 Bouton, or spoon of tongue, 95 

 Bowel blind in larva, 64 



casting, 21, 241, 243 



how developed in larva, 63 

 Brain, dissection of, 52 



of insects compared, 54 



size of, 55 

 Breathing apparatus, 33, 149 

 Broken combs, treatment of, 168 

 Brood, food of, 81 



weaning of, 82 

 Buckwheat, 254, 300 

 Bursa copulatrix, 229 

 Buzzing, 149 



C. 



Calyx, 251 



Cane sugar converted into grape 



sugar, 100 

 Cappings do not touch honey, 174 



imperfect, 175 



of drone cells, 1 80 

 Catasetum, 319 

 Cell, exuvium left in, 24 



making, how started, 161 



of queen, 27, 172, 243 



of queen contains cast skins, 

 172 



Cells impervious to dyes, 173 



normally circular, 1 70 



number of, to lib. wax, 171 



of comb unequal, 167 



of wasps, 171 



rhombic bases of, 161 



sizes of, 176 



transition, 177 

 Central and side ducts of ligula, 95 



duct of ligula, size of, 96 

 Cephalic ganglia, 52 

 Chitine, 30 

 Chorion of egg, 230 

 Chrysalis condition, 23, 238 



development of, 240 

 Chyle stomach, 60, 71 

 Circulation in bee, 37 

 Classification of Animal World, 7 

 Claws of bees, 124 

 Cleistogamous flowers, 249, 323 

 Clover, Dutch, does not seed under 



a net, 308 

 Coccinella enemy of aphis, 276 

 Cocoon, 21, 73, 175, 241 

 Colon, 62 



Colour sense in bees, 116, 321 

 Comb, angles of, 164, 167 



broken, treatment of, 168 



building, how commenced, 161 



coloured by breeding, 181 



economises space, 169 

 Combs illustrated, 1 7 



meet hygienic requirements, 

 182 



model of, to build, 163 



not mathematically correct, 166 



partly constructed of old 

 material, 172 



strength of, 179 



structure of. 28, 163 

 Commissural nerve fibres, 48 

 Compositae, 302 

 Compound eyes, 1 1 1 

 Conoid hairs of antennae, 106 

 Corbicula, 131 

 Corolla. 251 

 Coxa, or hip, 123 

 Cruciferae, 313 

 Cucurbitaceae, 259 

 Cynipidae (some) enemies of aphis, 

 277 



