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and the flagellum beneath, yellow; the tegulae yellow, the wings 



fulvo-hyaline. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 

 This species closely resembles both the A. vestita and the A. concinna, 



but is on comparison very distinct. 



Subfam. Sociales. 

 G-en. Apis, Linn. 



1. Apis dorsata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 370. 

 Hab. India, Borneo (Sarawak), Malacca. 



2. Apis Indica, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 370. 

 Hab. India, Malacca, Borneo. 



3. Apis Perrottetii, Gu^. Icon. R^g. Anim. Ins. p. 461. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). India. 



The specimens from Sarawak are of a paler colour than those described 

 by Guerin, but they agree in all the essential specific characteristics, 

 and have the bands of pale pubescence at the base of the segments, as 

 in A. Perrottetii; these bands, if the abdomen retracts after death, 

 are hidden beneath the apical margins of the preceding segments. 



4. Apis ANDRENiFORMis. -<4.nigra Isevis nitidaj alis hyalinis ; abdo- 

 mine fasciis albis pubescentibus ornato. 



Worker. Length 4 lines. Black : smooth and shining, slightly pilose ; 

 the face with a short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax, the 

 coxae and femora beneath with whitish pubescence ; the wings hya- 

 line and iridescent ; the basal margin of the second segment of the 

 abdomen shghtly rufo-piceous ; the basal margins of the third, fourth, 

 fifth and sixth segments with bands of white pubescence ; beneath, 

 the three basal segments of the abdomen pale testaceous in the 

 middle. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). ^/ pt^J' '^*^ . - /L'Ua 

 This remarkable Honey-Bee has exactly the appearance of an Andrena ; 

 it does not appear to be a worn specimen ; the wings are not torn, and 

 the abdominal bands entire; the eyes are pubescent, but less con- 

 spicuously so than in any species I have previously seen. 



5. Apis testacea. A. capite thoraceque nigris, abdomine pedibusque 

 pallide testaceis, alis hyalinis. 



Worker. Length 8 lines. Head dark fuscous; the ocelli shining, 

 yellow ; the extreme base of the scape and the tips of the mandibles, 

 as well as the tongue, of a reddish-yellow ; the head covered with 

 rufo-fuscous pubescence, that on the cheeks palest. Thorax fuscous 

 anteriorly, the metathorax, tegular and legs pale rufo-testaceous ; the 

 thorax and legs with a pale yellowish -white pubescence, intermixed 



