INDEX. 
A 
Abdomen, 38, 47, 158, 161; 
number of rings of, 47 
Abdominal plates, 47 
Abnormal bees, 165; causes 
which produce them, 166 
Accouplement in confinement 
impossible, 130 
Air cavities of thorax, 45 
A.ir sacs, 53, 55; filled by 
flight, 44, 45, 130; real use 
of, 54 
Air tubes, 51-53 
Albino bees, 166, 167 
Albrecht, J. P., 143 
Alimentary tract blind in em- 
br>^o, 155 
Amans, Dr., 40 
Amnion, 154 
Angles of cells, 177, 178, 186, 
187 
Anguiculi, 33 
Antennae, i8, 21, 69, 88-90, 
156, 158; cleaner of, 34; 
hollows on, 89, 91 ; number 
of joints of, 21 ; organs of 
touch, 88, 91 ; special organs 
on, 22 ; undefined hollows 
on, 92 
Annulosa, i 
Apidae, 2 
Apis mellifica, 2 
Aj)pendicular gland, 138, 150 
Articulata, i 
Arthropoda, i, 2 
Arrenotokia, 149 
Armor copulatrix, 128 
Ascending and descending 
flight, 43 
Assmuss, Dr., 165 
Atavism, 147, 157 
Audouin, Dr., 137 
Auricle, or earlet, 36 
Automatic movement of pul- 
villus, 37 
B 
Backward flight, 42 
Balbiani, M., 157 
Barbs of sting, 77 
Basilar membrane, lOO, loi 
Bean, or lentil, 128 
Beeswax, 189 
Bees, antennae of, 18, 21, 69, 
88-90, 156, 158; blood of, 
59 ; brain of, 66 ; chrysalis 
of, 12, 158; claws of, 33, 37, 
174; colour, sense of, 105; 
digestive system of, 106; food 
of, 7 ; genera of, 2 ; glands 
of, no, 1 12; grubs of, 10; 
hearing of, 88; hermaphro- 
dite, 165; kinds of, in a 
colony, 4, 190; silk of, 12; 
species of, 2; thorax of, 31, 
45 ; unloading nectar and 
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