ass APIS. (**. d. 1 a.) 



Panzer's figure of this insect is extremely ac-* 

 curate, except that the tibise and tarsi are more 

 yellow than in any specimens I have met with ; the 

 posterior tibiae, from the pollen, of which they 

 usually retain some quantity, appear yellower than 

 the others, but this not the real hue of the hairs, 

 which are pale with little or no tinge of that 

 colour. The eyes, in his specimen, when the in- 

 sect was living, he informs us were of a fine green, 

 " laete virides," in those that I took they were blue- 

 grey. The bifid mucro, which he mentions as ter- 

 minating the anus, is merely a little tuft of rigid 

 hairs which guard, on each side, the minute seg- 

 ment that terminates the abdomen ; under a com- 

 mon lens these have exactly the appearance he de- 

 scribes. What he calls spots of the front, are ra- 

 ther lobes, for they are not entirely, but only in 

 part, insulated from the blackness of the posterior 

 part of the face, by the intervention of the yellow, 

 which is the colour of the anterior. 



furcata. ()4. , A. corpore J^mnzeo nigro, gris^o-pubescenti ; 



facie antice, labio, anoque, villoso-ferrugineis : 



corpore masculo atro, cinereo-pubescenti ; 



facie anticd, labioque, flavis ; abdomine apice 



furcato. 



FIG. yipis furcata cinereo pubcscens, antennarurn articulo 

 primo fronte labioque flavis, abdomine apice furcato 

 tarsis ferrugineis. 



Panzer. Fn.Ins. Germ. Init. n. 56. tab. 8, Mas, 

 Tab. \7-fg- 5. Acul./g. Q. mas. 



