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GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Dasypoda, geography of, 69. 
-native species, 225. 
--natural history of, 226. 
-scientific description of, 224. 
Deflected, when bent downwards. 
Dentate, toothed. 
Depressed, when the vertical sec¬ 
tion is shorter than the trans¬ 
verse. 
Describers, duties of, 125. 
Describing, modes of, before Lin¬ 
naeus, 129. 
Differences of appearance between 
the parasite and the sitos, 260. 
Digiti, anterior tarsi, 42. 
O 7 7 
Dissimilarity frequent between the 
sexes, 52. 
Domestication of animals, 5. 
Dorylus, 311. 
Drone —male bee, description of, 
323. 
Edentate, without teeth. 
Egg of bees, 18. 
Egyptian hieroglyphics and sculp¬ 
tures represent the bee, 6. 
Elenchus, habits of, described by 
Dale, 113. 
-infests Halictus, 113, 219. 
Elliptical, oval but with the longi¬ 
tudinal diameter more than 
twice the length of the trans¬ 
verse. 
Enemies of bees, 51. 
Epeolus, general observations on, 
260. 
-geography of, 73. 
--native species, 260. 
-parasitical on Colletes, 190- 
260. 
-scientific description of, 258. 
Epipharynx, 29, 30. 
Eucera, general observations on, 
232. 
-geography of, 70. 
- infested by Nomada sex- 
cincta, 235. 
-native species, 232. 
-natural history of, 234. 
-scientific description of, 231. 
Face of bees, 26, 27. 
Families, characteristics of, differ, 
136. 
Family, 134. 
Feeling of bees, 56. 
Femur, or thigh, 41. 
Fertilization of flowers produced 
by bees, 11, 51. 
Feuds of animals, the occasion of, 
352. 
Filiform, thread-like, of uniform 
thickness. 
-antennae, 28. 
Fimbriated, = fringed. 
Flagellum of antennae, 18. 
Flight of bees, variation of their 
modes, 49. 
Floral clock of Linnaeus, 50. 
Flowers, the, chiefly agreeable to 
bees, 15. 
-earliest, sought by the bees,14. 
-fertilized by bees, 11, 51. 
Foenus infests Chelostoma, 287. 
Forcipate, when crossing each 
other. 
Foreign bees, conspicuous genera 
of, 101. 
Form of parasitical bees often 
adapted to that of their sitos, 48. 
-determined by function, 48. 
Fossorial Hymenoptera, 45. 
Fruit preserved in honey, 83. 
Fusiform, = spindle-shaped. 
Genae, 26, 28. 
Genera of bees determined artifi¬ 
cially, 176. 
-that emit scents, 296. 
-with and without parasites, 
264. 
Geniculated, bent like a knee or 
angle. 
Gequs, 132. 
-type of, 133. 
Geography of the British genera 
of bees, 61. 
Gibbous, = irregularly swollen. 
Glabrous, without hair or pubes¬ 
cence. 
Gregarious, its application to bees, 
57. 
