0^4 APIS. (**. c. 3. I) 



nitidisslmum. Pili rufi, baud densi, segmenr 

 torum margines, anticorum interrupte, fim- 

 briant. Anus incurvus, rufo-subtomentosus, 

 Fenter lana densa ferruginea tectus. 

 f^r. /S dimidio minor ; abdomine nigro-aeneo. 

 y corporis hirsutie cinerea ; abdomine ater- 

 rimOj segmentis margine derasis. Aneadem ? 

 Jn honor evi D. A. Mac Leay, Soc. Linnaean. a 

 Secretis, viri amicissimi , Natures regnay ei 

 imprimis Entomologiam, summo judicio et 

 acumine perlustrantis, hoc insecium nominavi. 

 This insect agrees tolerably well with GeofFroy's 

 description of his " Abeille fauve a ventre cuivreux," 

 except that the hair of the body can scarcely be 

 called red. Since both Fabricius and Schrank have 

 an j4pis hirta, I have altered Fourcroy's trivial 

 name. Variety y may, perhaps, be a distinct spe- 

 cies ; but upon the whole it so strongly resembles 

 «c, that I have riot ventured to separate them. 



cesrules' 55, A. corporeyemmeo atro, albido-subpubescens ; 

 i:cns. abdomine caerulescenti, segmentis margine 



' albicantibus, ventre lan^ atrX : 



corpore masculo seneo, fulvo-pubescente ; 

 pno bidentato. 



ACUL. 



j4p'is ccerulescens fusca, subvillcsa ; abdomine caerulei- 

 cente, incisurarum marginibus albicantibus. 



Iatl. Syst. Nat. Ed. 13. ^ Gmcl. p. 2793. n. 21. Fn^ 

 Suec. n. \QqQ. 



nil. Ent. Eur. 3. n. 17. 



Miill Zool. Dan. n. 1902. 



Hosi, 



