370 
GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Queen-bee, great fertility of, 334. 
-- loss of, disorganizes the 
hive, 335. 
-number of eggs laid by, 
346. 
Ray’s merits, 142. 
Reaumur’s description of the mode 
of lapping honey, 35. 
-description of the structure 
of the tongue, 35. 
Recurrent nervures of wings, 45. 
Retuse, with an obtuse cavity. 
Ridged, with a slight projecting 
margin. 
Rugose, rough or irregularly 
wrinkled. 
St. Fargeau’s merits, 151. 
Sanskrit notice of bees and honey, 
92. 
Saropoda, general observations, 
243. 
-geography of, 71. 
-native species of, 243. 
-rapidity of flight, 245. 
-scientific description of, 242. 
-vivacity of its eyes, 244. 
Scape of antennae, 28. 
Scent emitted by bees, 52. 
Scientific arrangement and de¬ 
scription of the genera, 184. 
-principles of, 118. 
-cultivation of British bees, 
142. 
Scopulipedes = brusli-legged bees, 
163, 227. 
Scripture, 60. 
Scutellum, 26, 45. 
Senses of bees, 56. 
Sensorium of bees, 55. 
Serrate, edged like a saw. 
Serratulate, edged like a fine saw. 
Setae, slightisli bristles. 
Setiform, like bristles. 
Setose, bristled. 
Shakespeare on the polity of the 
bee, 1. 
Shemitic branch of the human 
race, 4. 
Sight of bees, 56. 
Simple eyes = ocelli = stemmata, 
26, 27. 
Sinus, a cavity. 
Sitos, the supporter of a parasitical 
bee. 
Sizes, differences of, what caused 
by, 41. 
Smell of bees, 56. 
Social bees, = Cenobites, 302. 
Species, 122. 
-name of, 128. 
-the basis of natural science, 
121 . 
- vai*y in number of indivi¬ 
duals, 123. 
Specific character, 124. 
-descriptions, 125. 
-differences, 123. 
Sphecodes, difficulty of specific 
distinction in, 398. 
-doubts as to its parasitism, 
199. 
--general observations on, 197. 
-geography of, 66. 
-list of native species, 197. 
-scientific description of, 196. 
Spines at apex of abdomen of bees, 
268. 
Spinose, with minute spiny pro¬ 
cesses. 
Spinulose, with fine spiny pro¬ 
cesses. 
Spiral hair of the scopa, 226, 229. 
Spurs, 42. 
Square ulse = epaulettes = wing- 
scales, 26, 44. 
State of Great Britain before the 
glacial period, 5. 
Stelis, general observations on, 
263. 
-geography of, 73. 
-infests Osmia, 302. 
-list of native species, 263. 
-scientific description of, 262. 
Stemmata = simple eyes = ocelli, 
26, 27. 
Stephens, inferior merit of his sys¬ 
tem, 152. 
Strepsiptera parasitical on bees, 
111 . 
Strigilis, 42. 
