240 APIS. (**. c. 2. a.) 



Var. (S corporis piibe pallida flavescenti. 

 Maris Corpus flavescente densiCis villosum. An- 

 tenna capite longiores, nitidiusculas. Maxilla 

 apice bidentatae, dente exteriori longiore, acu- 

 te, interiore magno, truncate (c). Fades 

 ante antennas barb^ densa flavicanti tecta. 

 Femora antica antrorsum apice sordid^ flava. 

 Abdomen ex oblongo subglobosum. Anns 

 inflexus, subiriteger, obsolete denticulatus (rf), 

 Venter planiusculus, segmentis margine pilis 

 albidis ciliatis. 



This Apis is considerably smaller than the pre- 

 ceding, the abdomen of the aculeates is propor- 

 tionally longer and narrower, and the margin of 

 its dorsal segments is fringed on each side with 

 white or yellowish hairs ; the anus also has no 

 black hairs. The male is still more strikingly dis- 

 tinguished from the same sex of A. tVillughbiella, 

 for it wants the dilated anterior tarsus, its antennae 

 are filiform, its maxillae are armed at the apex 

 with two teeth only, of which the interior is trun- 

 cate and very short, its primary apophyses have no 

 mucro upon their first joint, and its anus is entire. 

 The specimens labelled as A. centiincularis in 

 the Linnean cabinet, do not agree with the de- 

 scription of that insect given in the Fauna Suecica. 

 " Abdomen ovatuni, nigrum, acutum, incisura- 

 rum marginibus albis." Iri those specimens the 



i«) tab, e, iag, ii, (4 ibicl. fig. 26; 



