APIS. (**. c. 1. «.) ^^^ 



cutters, with a quadrideiitate ahus), to which Llh- 

 iieus referred as synonymous with ^. conical it is 

 probable, from a hasty view of the figure which 

 somewhat resembles that insect. The last is that 

 of Swammerdam (n), whose figure is quoted by Lin-* 

 neus and others after him both as ^. quadridentata 

 and A. manicata ; biit the figure, although a bad 

 one, evidently belongs to the latter insect. 



Variety (S of the aculeate sex, and y of the male> 

 may be the sexes of a distinct species, but they so 

 nearly resemble the others that, without fuller evi- 

 dence, I was unwilling to separate them. 



38. A. atra; scutello inerrrii; abdomine mascutoinermis, 

 lineari, segmentis margine albis, ano multi- 

 dentato. 



ACULo 



Ayis conica fusca, abdomine cdnicd acutissimo> segment 



torum marginibus albis scutello inermi. 

 Pab. Ent. Syst. Em. n. 116. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 2779. 'Z- 33. 

 Ross. Fn. Etrusc. n. 928, 

 FIG. Apis centunadaris acwminata. Christii Hyment)pt{ 

 p.lQ2. tal.l7.Jig.2, ♦ 



MAS; 

 Apis quadridentata. Miller int. Not. M, S. Graiatii, 

 siipr. citat. 



FIG. Tab. 16. Jig. 8. 

 MUS. Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 4. 



Hah. Brentfordiae, a D. J. Trimmer semel capta* 



(n) Swamra. Bib. Nat. tab. 2(5. fig. 4, 



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