20^ APIS. (*. b.) 



moribus posticis fer^ toti"?, reliquis subtus, 

 apopliysibusque, nigris. T//v>anticac antror- 

 sum litLira flavd. 

 Abdomen subovatum, atrum, segmento antico, 

 maculis diiabus subrcpaiidis, vul potius fascia 

 interrupt^, secundp maculis duabus, magnis, 

 ovatis, tertio totidem lanccolatis, proximis 

 duobus fascia, anoque, flavis. Segmentum 

 ultimum emarginatum. Venter fasciis quin- 

 que subrepandis, flavis 

 Var. /9 plcuris antice macula rotunda, flava ; ab- 

 domine segmento primo fascia obscurS, inter- 

 ruptS, ferruginea, maculas duas contiguas 

 subtriangulares flavas includente. 



Panzer's N. Jacohcetv appears to me merely a 

 variety of our insect, which is sufficiently dis- 

 tinguished from the preceding species, by its an- 

 tennae blackish on the upper side, its yellow tuber- 

 cles and squamula;, hyaline wings, red legs, and 

 emarginate anus. 



j^nvo-pic 1\ . A. atra; antennisnigricantibus; scutelli punc- 

 *"' tis duobus contiguisj abdominisque maculis, 



fasciisque, flavis. 



JdUS. Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 5. 

 U(th. Barhnmine, in floribus Jacobcece lecta Septembre 

 ineunti 1/99. 



DE5CR. Acul. 



CORPUS atrum, glabcrrimum. 



Capu-j 



