224 APIS. (**. b. c. 1. «.) 



Apis. His figure does not give the teeth upon the 

 posterior part of the thorax on each side of the 

 scutellum, but these are easily overlooked. Chris- 

 tius's figure, of what he calls A. variegata major, 

 belongs to an insect resembling j4. luctuosa ; but 

 which is very different from the genuine A. varie- 

 gata : his A. muscaria is a tolerable representation 

 of it. 



I first saw this bee in the cabinet of Mr. "Dniry, 

 and afterwards found it, but by no means common, 

 in the autumn of two succeeding years, 1797 and 

 1798, flying about sunny banks; since then I have 

 not met with it. 



**. c. 1. «. 

 conka. 37- A. atra; scutello bidentato; abdomine conico 

 segmentis margine albidis ; ano femineo acu- 

 tissimo, masculo multidentato. 



ACUL. 



Apis conica fusca, abdomine conico acutissimOj segmen- 



torum marginibus albis. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. n. 32. Fn. Suec. 1705. 

 Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n.25. 

 Miill. Zool. Dan. n. ig08. 

 Schrank. Enum. Ins. Austr. n. 8O9. 

 Forst. Cat. Brit. Ins. n. 719. Apis^ n. 13. 

 Berkenhout. Synops. 1. p. log. n.5. 



tlG, Apis lidentata atra, nitida, abdomine conico acutissimo, 

 segmentorum marginibus albis scutello bidentato. 

 Panzer. Fn. Ins. Germ. Init. n.sg. tal.7. 

 Harris. Exp, Eng. Ins. tab. 49. Jig. 8. 



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