198 APIS. (*. b.) 



sci-dncia 17. A. atra ; tarsis rufis; abdomine fasciis sex fla- 

 vis, anticis tribus interruptis. 



MUS. Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 4. 

 Hal'. Barhamiae, semel capta. 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS atrum, pube grisescenti. 



Caput. Maxillcc basi flavae, dein rufae, apice 

 iusca2. Labium rufum. ^ntenn^e rufae, supra 

 piceo-nigrae, scapo antrorsum macula flava. 

 Fades immaculata, solummodo lineol4 flavi 

 inter basin maxillaruin et oculos inclusS. 



Truncus. Tubercuki vertice flava. SquamulcB 

 extrorsum obscure fulvescentes. jilce hyalinae, 

 apice fuscescentcs, nervis testaceis. Pedes ni- 

 gri, tibiis quatuor anticis rufis, nebula suban- 

 nulari nigral Femora primi et secundi paris 

 antrorsum apice rufa. Tarsi omncs rufi. 



Abdomen sublanceolatum, atrum, maculis sex, 

 per paria dispositis, anticis minutis oblongi?, 

 intermediis mag:nis ovatis inlrorsum acutis, 

 ultimis sublinearibus, lasciisque tribus posticis, 

 flavis. Segmentum ultinnun apice bidentatum, 

 rufum, macula flava. Fenter nigcr, fasciis tri- 

 ^- bus subrepandis, anoquc, flavis. 



Tliis is very similar, at first sight, to ^. levcoph- 

 thahna ; but it seems sufiiciently distinguished, not 

 to recapitulate its various slighter dissonances, by 

 the different colour and yellow bands of the under 



side 



