Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum, Part 1order of the Trustees, 1855 - 252 pages |
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CATALOGUE OF BRITISH HYMENOPTE British Museum (Natural History) Dept,Frederick 1806?-1879 Smith No preview available - 2016 |
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Abdomen Abdomen ovate Andrena Angl antennæ Anthophora apex apical fimbria apical joints apical margins apical segments Apis atra B.M. Male B.M. This species basal joint basal segment base black pubescence Bombus Boreal burrows cence cinereous pubescence Clarkella claws ferruginous closely punctured clothed with pale clypeus colour coxæ disk Fabr face clothed faintly clouded Farg fascia Faun Female femora flagellum floccus fringe fuscous genus Germ griseous Halictus head and thorax Hist insect Kirby labial palpi labrum larvæ Latr legs Length lines.-Black Linn mandibles Maxilla maxillary palpi Megachile Melitta metathorax nervures ferruginous nest nigra Nomada Nyland ochraceous Osmia pale fulvous pubescence pale pubescence Panz parasitic piceous Piez posterior tibiæ pubes rufo-fulvous rufo-piceous rufo-testaceous scape scopa scutellum second segment shining side Smith specimens spot submarginal cell Syst tarsi tegulæ thinly clothed third segments thorax transverse vertex white pubescence wings hyaline wings subhyaline yellow pubescence Zool
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Page 187 - ... for the sake of its tomentum, which probably it turns to some purpose in the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs.
Page 22 - July scarcely an individual was to be found ; a solitary female now and then might be seen, but the spring bees had almost disappeared ; about the middle of August the males began to come forth, and by the end of the month abounded ; the females succeeded the males in their appearance about ten or twelve days : these industrious creatures...
Page 49 - I have frequently observed these creatures in considerable numbers in the flowers of Ranunculus acris, as many as twenty or more in a single flower, about the month of April ; and I think always before the usual time for meeting with the larvae of Meloe. I have found them on various species of bees, usually on those which are most pubescent, as Andrena fulva, thoracica, and...
Page 49 - Anthophora retusa and pilipes : this circumstance would appear to confirm or indicate a connection between the insects, and from analogy we might readily conclude that this Pediculus must be a parasite on some species of bee; but we have nothing in support of this supposition, and against it we have the following observations. Mr. Newport has shown that it cannot be the larva of Meloe cicatricosus, and, as well as myself, has proved that it cannot be that of M. violaceus or of M.
Page 127 - Head and thorax black ; the scape in front, the clypeus and a spot above it, the...
Page 46 - Eucera longicornis, the males occasionally darting forwards with great velocity, then turning sharply round, and, as it were, swimming in circles close to the ground, then darting off again and again in an unceasing round of sportive enjoyment ; their industrious partners, whose whole existence appears to be bound up in one unceasing round of labour, would occasionally return home laden with food for their young progeny. Sometimes it would happen that a Nomada had previously entered her nest; when...
Page 158 - I merely allude to it, to call attention to the highly interesting history given by Reaumur of its economy. The most abundant species is Osmia bicornis ; its economy is varied by circumstances ; in hilly country, or at the sea-side, it chooses the sunny side of cliffs or sandy banks, in which to form its burrows ; but in cultivated districts, particularly if the soil be clayey, it selects a decaying tree, preferring the stump of an old willow ; it lays up a store of pollen and honev for the larvae,...
Page 7 - ... the first recurrent nervure received at the apex of the first submarginal cell, the second at the apex of the second.
Page 49 - Proscarabaeus ; and since the only other species of Meloe, the M. variegatus, does not occur near London, it appears certain that it cannot be the larva of any species of that genus, unless it be discovered hereafter that the larva of Meloe not only increases in size in its hexapod state, but that it also changes from bright orange to black. " Another circumstance which induces me to hesitate in adopting an opinion of the Pediculus being a larva at all, is the fact, that on opening some cells of...