188 APIS. (*. b.) 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS atrum, nifo-subvillosum. 



Caput antice, ct oculorum ambitus, ferruginei. 

 Maxillce apice fuscae. Antennce ferrugineae, 

 scapo supra nigro. 



Truncus. Cotlare, Squamulce, item Pleurce 

 macula antica, ferrugineae. Tubercula, ScU' 

 tellique puncta bina, fulvo-flava. Alts testa- 

 ceae, apice obscuriores lunula alba. Pedes 

 ferruginei, femoribus posticis hinc nigris. 

 Apophyses articulis apice rufis. 



Abdomen subovatum, rufum, fasciis nigrican- 

 tibus flavisque variegatum. f^enter ferrugU 

 neus, immaculatus. 



This may probably be the other sex of one of the 

 preceding species, for a ferruginous or red mouth is, 

 in the present family, generally a characteristic of 

 the aculeates, as a yellow one is of the males ; but 

 as the sexes usually agree as well in the ventral as 

 in the dorsal markings of the abdomen, and in this 

 respect A. rufiventris differs from them, I thought 

 it best to consider it as distinct. 



Mnrshani'lO. A. atra; an tennis, squamulisque ferrugineis; 

 scutelli punctis, abdominisque fasciis, fiavis, 

 anticis tribus interruptis. 



MUS. D. Marsham, M^Leay, Sowerlnj, Trimmer, Frandllon^ 

 Kirhy. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 5^ — 6, 



Hah. 



