HYMENOPTERA 1 1 5 



Male : face densely clothed with pale fulvous pubescence to above the insertion 

 of the antennae, the vertex almost bare and very densely punctured. Thorax finely 

 and very densely punctured, sparsely clothed with pale pubescence. Wings subhyaline. 

 Front tarsi simple. Abdomen densely punctured, the first four segments with a 

 narrow entire apical band of pale pubescence, sixth with the apical crest deeply 

 emarginate, and having a spot of appressed pubescence before the crest ; beneath 

 with four segments exposed, the second and third with an entire apical band of pale 

 pubescence, the apical margin of the fourth sinuate ; 5th submembranous, with a 

 semilunar impressed area, which is notched in the middle of its apical margin, and 

 appears to be densely covered with minute asperities (under the microscope these 

 apparent asperities are seen to consist in reality of peculiar short thick hairs with 

 knobbed apices) ; 6th band-like and fragile, with a transverse line of remarkable 

 hairs, which are flattened and curved, with their apices bent and acuminate ; 8th 

 very delicate, tongue-like, obtuse at the apex ; genital armature with the stipites 

 and sagitiae of equal length, the latter connected by membrane to their apex, the 

 former flattened, widening towards the apex, and there pointed, bent outwards, and 

 set with a few extremely short hairs. Calcaria pale. 



Female very like the <} in general appearance. The pubescence is cinereous 

 with little or no fulvous tinge, that on the clypeus is sparse, so that the puncturation 

 is exposed. The first five abdominal segments have a band of pale pubescence, 

 beneath the scopa is formed of silvery hairs, those on the apical segment black. 



H.\B. Several and probably all the islands, especially about towns or settle- 

 ments. Nests frequently in the leaves of coconut and other palms when they have 

 been rolled up by the larva of a Pyralid. 



(i) Apis mellifica. 



Apis mellifica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 576. 



Hab. The hive bee is common throughout the islands, and is now found wild 

 in many of the mountain forests, forming its nests in hollow trees. 



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