APIS. (**. d. 1.) ^83 



Tkuncus supra hirsuto-cinereus. Squamulce 

 piceae. ^/^ hyalinae, nervis ferrugineis. Pe- 

 des pilis albicantibus hirti. Spinulce fiavse. 

 Scopulce fulvescentes. Digiti articulis exti- 

 mis testaceis. 

 Abdomen subglobosum, nigrum, basi cinereo, 

 sed rariils, villosum; segmento penultimo 

 fimbria rufescenti. Venter villosulus. 



This species resembles not a little the male of 

 the preceding, variety ^, but it is much smaller, 

 the hirsuties of the body is cinereous, and the base 

 of the abdomen is not so thickly covered with it. 

 It has been mistaken, by many authors, for A. tu- 

 mulorum of Linneus, but this, as we have shewn 

 above (/), belongs to the genus Melitta, and exhi- 

 bits no other mark of relation to the Eucene, thari 

 its antennae, which are longer than the thorax ; a 

 circumstance which it possesses in common with 

 ipany other males of the family to which it belongs. 

 Linneus having placed it next to A. longicornis, 

 and employing terms in the definition of it, which 

 imply that it is related to that insect, succeeding 

 Entomologists took this for granted, and thus have 

 ^rred universally concerning this Apis, not one 

 author, that I have had an opportunity of consult- 

 ing, being acquainted with the true A. tumulorum, 

 and the majority of them mistaking the insect now 

 j^efore us for it. Yet had the definition which 



(/) Vid. supr. p. 56, 57. 



Linneii§ 



