GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
367 
Habit, 127. 
Habitat, 127. 
Habits, 127. 
- and structure correlative, 
24. 
Halictopbagus, 115. 
Halictus, general observations on, 
216. 
-geography of, 68. 
-its enemies, 220. 
-list of native species, 215. 
-natural history of, 217. 
-parasites that infest it, 219. 
- peculiar autumnal appear¬ 
ance, 218. 
-scientific description of, 214. 
-structure of labrum, 30. 
Hastate, halberd shaped. 
Head of bees, 26. 
Hedychrum infests Halictus, 219. 
Heriades, general observations on, 
288. 
--geography of, 76. 
-- native species of, 288. 
-scientific description of, 288. 
Hindoo Ivoosh, supposed cradle of 
the human race, 3. 
Hirsute, covered with long stiffish 
hairs, thickly set. 
Hives, darkness of, 355. 
-moved on rafts, 85. 
Homer mentions bees, 6. 
Honey, different kinds of, 87. 
• -green, 87. 
-its use in the East, 83. 
• -mode of lapping, described 
by Reaumur, 35. 
-mode of storing, 350. 
-- prescribed by Mahomet, 91. 
-quantity in a well-filled hive, 
360. 
■-sometimes poisonous, 86. 
- used in medicine by the 
Egyptians, 90. 
Honey-bee, see “ Apis,” “ Bee,” 
“Bees.” 
-mode of secreting wax, 
330. 
Hypopharynx, 29. 
Imago of bees, 23. 
Inosculation, point of close con¬ 
tact or attachment. 
Insect-feeding reptiles before gla¬ 
cial period, 5. 
Inserted, where joined. 
Instinct, its applications, 56. 
- occasional divergence of, 
55. 
-of bees, 55. 
Job mentions bees, 6. 
Kirby’s merits, 144. 
-system of bees, 147. 
Labial palpi, 30, 32. 
-number of joints invariable, 
32. 
-structure in Andrenidse, 32. 
-structure in Apidse, 32. 
Labium = lower lip, 30, 31. 
Labrum = upper lip, 28, 30. 
Lacerate, with a roughened irre¬ 
gular edge. 
Lanceolate, oblong but gradually 
tapering. 
Latreille’s classification not 
adopted, 168. 
Leg, diagram of, 42. 
Legs, general description of, 41. 
Length of an insect is taken from 
the front of the head to the apex 
of the abdomen; the breadth, 
or the expansion of the wings, 
it is not usual to give, except¬ 
ing under such circumstances 
as would be particularly men¬ 
tioned, viz. in cases of an ex¬ 
cessive enlargement or diminish- 
ment of the typical size. 
Life, duration of, of bees, 54. 
Line, the twelfth part of an inch ; 
the ordinary measure used in 
entomology for the fractions of 
an inch, unless the insect is much 
more than an inch long. 
Linnaeus, author of the binomial 
system, 129. 
-great merits of, 129. 
Lobated, divided into equal 
rounded parts. 
