210 APIS. (*. b.) 



gro excepto, rufis. Pedes rufi, femorlbus pos- 

 ticis totis, anterioribus quatuor basi subtus 

 nigris. j^pophyaes rufo nigroque variae. 

 Abdomen lanccolatum, rufum, segmento prinio 

 basi nigro, secundo diaculis binis rotundatis, 

 tertio totidcm ovalibns, proximis duobus fascii 

 interrupta, sexto fascia continue, si.lphureis. 

 Anus apice bidentatus. Venter rufus, postice 

 punctis sulphureis quatuor, quadratim positis. 



This approaclies very near to the preceding spe- 

 cies; but, as they are of the same sex, and differ in 

 many respects not a little, I think they are distinct. 

 I have, as yet, had no opportunity of comparing 

 the specimens themselves. 



ruficornis.27. A. ferruginea; thorace lineis tribus longitudi- 

 nalibus atris; abdomine maculis, fasciisque, 



flavis. 



1 

 yipis ruficornis antennisj pedibusque duobus, punctis- 



que thoracis ferrugineis, abdomine luteo varicgato. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. n. 34. Fn. Suec. 1707. 

 Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n. 2/. ,.f 



Nomada ruficornis antennis, pedibus, scutellique puno 



tis quatuor ferrugineis, abdqpine luteo variegato. 

 Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. n. 7- " 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 2/95. Apis, n. 34. 

 Fespa rubra, thorace hneolis longitudinahbus nigris, 



abdomine maculis flavis. 

 GeqO'r. Hist. Ins. Par. tom.2. p. 331. n. 18. 

 Vespa rubra. Fourcroy. Ent. Par. n. 18., 



FIG. Nomnda ruficornis. Panzer. .Fn. Ins. Germ. Init. n.55. 

 tal. 18. 



MUS, 



