Chapter IV: Part 4

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

[1] In this case, only the actual tongue (or _ligula_) and its _paraglossae_ are figured.

[2] _The Guests of Ants and Termites_, by E. Wasmann, S. J., translated by H. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. (_Ent. Record_, Vol. xii., 1900.)

[3] cf. _Transactions of the Entomological Society of London_, 1884, p. 251 et seq.: Hymenoptera Aculeate of the British Islands, etc.

End of Project Gutenberg's Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants, by Edward Saunders

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