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GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Apis, native species, 321. 
-natural history of, 322. 
-origin of names, 321. 
-scientific description of, 318. 
-see “Bee” and “Bees.” 
Appearance of bees intermittent, 
54. 
Appendiculated, when there is a 
small appendage, as in the lip of 
Halictus, and at the end of the 
marginal cell of the wings, etc. 
Arrangement and description of 
British bees, 184. 
Artesian well, peculiar results 
from its soil, 223. 
Articulate, where jointed, or the 
point of attachment. 
Artisan bees = Dasygasters, 272. 
Aryans, one of the primitive divi¬ 
sions of the human race, 4. 
Atmosphere, its conditions affect 
bees, 50. 
Aulacus, 287. 
Auriculated, with a small ear-like 
appendage. 
Bee, constructive habits of the, 
early noticed, 93. 
-general history of the, 17. 
-parasites, 115. 
-- parasitism limited, 264. 
- probably earlier known to 
man than the silkworm, 6. 
-Queen, description of, 322. 
-see “ Apis.” 
-several species of, 87. 
■-symbol of royalty with the 
Egyptians, 5. 
-The, one of the Suras of the 
Koran, 90. 
-why attractive, 1. 
Bee-bread, 347. 
Bees, amount of their suscepti¬ 
bility of pain, 57. 
-construction of cells, 327. 
-duties performed in the hive, 
325. 
-duties transferable, 336. 
- early cultivated, 3, 90, 91. 
- economy, early known, 92. 
-emit an odour, 52. 
Bees enemies, 51. 
--extent of flight, 340. 
-flight, modes of, varies, 49. 
-found in the Orkneys, 7. 
-genera of, determined by an 
artificial mode, 170. 
-habits of, in America, 7. 
-hairiness of, reason of, 14. 
- intimately connected with 
flowers, 3. 
-largely contribute to the im¬ 
pregnation of plants, 11. 
-- make about ten journeys a 
day, 351. 
- many disclosed in autumn 
for the following year’s spring 
flight, 53. 
-not early risers, 51. 
-number of eyes, 355. 
- other than social, also 
known, 8. 
-rarely walk, 50. 
-sagacity in finding the honey 
of flowers, 13. 
- scientific arrangement and 
description of the genera of, 184. 
- secretion of wax, 325. 
-stages of life of,—egg, 18. 
-— larva, 19. 
-pupa, 22. 
-imago, 23. 
-swarming, 337. 
-their relative perfection, 56. 
-voice, a scale of music, 49. 
Beehive represented on a tomb 
at Thebes, 6. 
Beehives moved on rafts, 84. 
Bifid, divided into two parts. 
Binomial system invented by Lin¬ 
naeus, 129. 
Body of the bee, its structure, 25. 
Bombus, difficulty in determining 
the species of the males, 311. 
-general observations on, 310. 
-geography of, 78. 
-infested by Apathus , 311. 
-list of native species, 308. 
•- natural history of, 312. 
-peculiarities in times of ap¬ 
pearance, 312. 
-scientific description of, 307. 
