GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
365 
Boss of mesothorax, 45. 
Bougie, derivation of, 84. 
British bees, new arrangement of, 
153, 158. 
Carder bees, 316. 
Carelessness of describers of new 
species, 125. 
Carinated, having a longitudinal 
elevated line. 
Carpenter bees, 286. 
Cells of hive, geometrical form of, 
343. 
--results from in¬ 
stinct, 343. 
• -how constructed, 342. 
--of wings characteristic, 44. 
Cenobites = social bees, 167, 302. 
Ceratina, disputed parasitism of, 
247. 
• -general observations on, 246. 
-geography of, 71. 
-list of native species, 246. 
-natural history of, 247. 
-scientific description of, 245. 
Cereal plants early cultivated, 4. 
Chelostoma, general observations 
on, 286. 
-geography of, 76. 
• -infested by Foenus, 287. 
-native species of, 285. 
-natural history of, 286. 
-scientific description of, 283. 
Chrysis infests Chelostoma, 287. 
-infests Halictus, 219. 
- infests Osmia, 302. 
Cibarial apparatus = troplii = col¬ 
lective organs of the mouth, 163. 
Cilissa, general observations on, 
213. 
- geography of, 67. 
-list of native species, 213. 
-scientific description of, 211. 
C'lavate, club-shaped. 
-antennae, 28. 
Claws, 42. 
-reflected, 285. 
Climate inoperative on low forms 
of life, 24. 
Clothing of bees, 60. 
Clypeus, 26, 28. 
Coadunate, closely united withou 
perceptible articulation. 
Coelioxys, difficulty of their specific 
separation, 267. 
-general observations on, 267. 
-geography of, 74. 
-list of native species, 267. 
-parasitical on Megachile and 
Saropoda, 267. 
-scientific description of, 265. 
Collar, 41. 
Colletes, general observations on, 
187. 
-geography of, 64. 
-list of native species, 187. 
-natural history of, 187. 
-parasites upon, 190. 
-scientific description of, 185. 
Colour of bees, 60. 
-more intense in males than 
females, 52. 
-most conspicuous in parasites, 
66, 105. 
Combs, structure of, 345. 
Corbiculum, 319. 
Correlative relations of structure 
and function, 10. 
Cotton, Rev. Chas. Wm., a distin¬ 
guished apiarian, 361. 
Coxa, or hip, 41. 
-useful as a specific character, 
42. 
Compound eyes, 26, 27. 
Compressed, when the transverse 
section is shorter than the 
vertical. 
Constricted, with tightened edges. 
Conterminous, where the joints 
follow each other in a straight 
line of succession. 
Crenulated, cut into segments of 
very small circles. 
Cubital cells of wings, 45. 
Cuckoo bees, = Xudipedes, 249. 
‘ Cui bono ?’ answer to, 141. 
Curtis, inferior merit of his system, 
152. 
Dasygasters, artisan bees, 167,269. 
Dasvpoda, general observationson, 
j 225. 
