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INDEX, 
N 
Nectar, converted into honey, 
7, 1 19, 121 ; unloading of, 7 
Nerve, cords, 63; fibres, 62, loi ; 
fibres, sheath of, 62 ; system, 
62; system oflarva and imago 
different, 160 
Nervures of wing, 39, 16 1 
Neurospongium, 10 1 
Newport, G., Il, 51, 52, 54-56, 
_ 59, 60, 62, 72, 73, 89, 1 1 2, 1 58 
Notch on front leg, 34 
Nurse bees, 9, 115, 157, 190 
Nymph, or chrysalis, 12, 158 
O 
Obturator muscle of spiracle, 
86; tendon, 86 
Ocelli, or stemmata of bee, 18, 
68, 69, 98, 104, 105 
CEsophageal collar, 62, 65 
Oesophagus, 22, 29, 62, 106, 109 
Olfactory organ of Wolff, 92 
Ommateum, orommatidium, 98 
Ophthalmic lobes, 50 
Opiicon, 100, loi 
Order of the honey bee, 3 
Organic or vegetative life, 65 
Ovarian follicles, or tubes, 135, 
136 
Ovaries, of fertile worker, 150; 
of worker, 150, 163 ; of 
queen, 13, 54, 120, 134, 137 
Oviducts of queen, 137, 140,163 
Ovipositor, 74, 81 
Ovum, 128, 135, 146 
P 
Palma of worker, 34 
Palmse, or palms, 32 
Pancritius, P., 16 1 
Pap for grubs, 10, 123 
Paraglossm, 22, 27 
Parthenogenesis, 143, 147 
Pecten of fore leg, 34 ; of hind 
leg, 36 
Pedunculated bodies, 68-70, 
104 
Pericardial, cells, 58, 59; dia- 
phragm, 58 
Pericardium, 56 
Pericils of evolution, 13 
Periopticon, 100 
Peritoneal membrane, 59 
Perez, [., 147 
Perris, E., 89 
Pettigrew, J. B., 40 
Pharynx, 22, 29 
Pincers on hind leg, 36 
Planta of worker, 36 
Planta, Dr. A. de, 10, 12, 13, 
1 19, 122-124, 189; analysis 
of brood food, 122, 123 
Plantse, or soles, 32 
Plates of abdomen, 47 
Plateau, F. , 72 
Pneumophyses, 129, 137 
Poison, bag or sac, 78-80, 82 ; 
cracks on drying, 80; gland, 
78 ; sac of queen, 82 
Pollen, 7, 10, II, no. Ill, 189; 
basket, 35 
Pollmann, Dr. A., 86 
Power of traction, 72 
Problematical organs, 94 
Pro-thorax, 31, 32, 159 
Prolongation into chyle sto- 
mach, no, 121, 122 
Protractor linguae muscle, 26 
Propolis, 14, 35 
Pulvillus, or cushion of foot, 
33, 37 5 method of examining, 
38; movement of, 37, 38; 
secretion of, 37, 38 
Pumping action of sting, 80 
