Females, 95 Femur, 135 Figwort, 36 Figure of insect, 133 Flies, 3, 129 Flower lovers, 6 Flute, 57 Food, 6, 28 Foot, 135 Formica, 34, 59 -- fusca, 119 -- sanguinea, 89 Formicoxenus, 96 Fossors, 6, 7
Galleries, 28 Grasshoppers, 19, 128 Growth, 126 Guests of Ants, 89
Hairs, 65, 71 Halictus, 13, 15, 17, 77, 94, 97, 119, 122 Head, 125 Hemiptera, 129, 130 Heterogyna, 28, 31 Heteromorphae, 130 Hive bee, 2, 16 Homing instinct, 21 Homomorphae, 130 Honey pots, 29 Hornets, 35 Humble bees, 39 -- mutilated, 41 Hymenoptera, 128, 129
Ichneumons, 21 Inquilines, 3
Jewel flies, 21, 27
Keyhole wasps, 101 Killing bottles, 126 Knife-like hairs, 68
Labels, 118 Labial palpi, 5 Labium, 127, 134 Larva, 11, 13 Lasius niger, 91 -- flavus, 91 Latin names, 55 Lawn bee, 9 Leaf-cutting bees, 52 Lepidoptera, 129 Ligula, 75, 134 Limbs, 125, 127 Locomotion, 125 Lodgers with ants, 89 Lomechusa, 89 Long-horned bee, 104 Lora, 74 Lysimachia, 106
Macropis, 106 Males, 95 Male wasp, 2 -- hornet, 2 Mandibles, 127, 129 Mason bee, 55 Maxillae, 75, 127, 134 Mayflies, 128 {143} Melecta armata, 61 -- luctuosa, 62 Mentum, 74 Metoecus paradoxus, 38 Mimicking flies, 94 Miscophus, 119 Moss, 29 Mouse's nest, 29 Mouth, 128 Mutilla, 112, 119 Myrmica, 34 Myrmosa, 100
Nests, 24, 26, 31, 35, 45, 49 -- in bramble stems, 45 -- Humble bees, 40 -- of leaves, 53 -- of paper, 37 -- in wren's nest, 41 Neuration, 136 -- figure and explanation of, 133 Neuroptera, 128, 129 Nodes, 33 Nomada, 15, 48 Non-predaceous hymenoptera, 3 Nymph, 11
Odynerus, 24 Orthoptera, 128, 130 Osmia, 48, 56, 120 -- bicolor, 59, 121 -- inermis, 58 -- leucomelana, 57 -- parietina, 58 -- rufa, 56 Ovaries, 4 Ovipositer, 1 Oxybelus, 86
Palm, 82 Palpi, 134 Panurgus, 49 Paper, 37 Paraglossae, 76 Paralytics, 18 Plant lice, 19 Poison bags, 1 Pollen collecting, 65 Pompilus, 87 Ponera, 33 Porterage, 34 Post-scutellum, 135 Predaceous species, 3 Preservation, 116 Propodeum, 132, 135 Prosopis, 44, 46 -- cornuta, 47 Pulvillus, 135
Queens, 4
Rarity, 105 Ray, John, 63
Sallows, 82 Sandy bank, 83 Saropoda, 93, 111 Scale, 33 Scrophularia, 36 Scutellum, 135 Scutum, 135 Segments, 96 Setting, 117 Sexual structure, 100 Shin, 135 Snail shells, 12, 57 Social species, 3, 4, 28 Solitary species, 3, 4, 6 Spade-like hairs, 69 Sphecodes, 13, 15, 17, 48, 97, 122 Spiders, 19 Stinging, 2, 38 Stings, 2, 32 Stipes, 74 {144} Straws, 12 Structure, 132 Stylops, 77 Submentum, 74 Swarming, 29
Tarsi, 135 Tegula, 133, 138 Thigh, 135 Thorax, 125, 129 Tibia, 135 Tomtit, 42 Tongues, 15, 39, 44, 49, 66, 72 Trochanter, 135 Tubular entrance, 25
Unguiculi, 135
Vagaries of structure, 104 Velleius dilatatus, 38 Vespa sylvestris, 36
Walls, 12 Wasps, social, 35 -- solitary, 24 Waspy coloration, 120, 121 Wings, 110 -- cells, 112, 133 -- folded, 24, 28 -- hooks, 110 -- nervures, 133 Workers, 4 Wrens' nests, 41
Yellow-coloured species, 120
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NOTES
In this case, only the actual tongue (or ligula) and its paraglossae are figured.
The Guests of Ants and Termites, by E. Wasmann, S. J., translated by H. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. (Ent. Record, Vol. xii., 1900.)
cf. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1884, p. 251 et seq.: Hymenoptera Aculeate of the British Islands, etc.
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