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gether, I thought it most adviseable to correct my 

 Nomen Specificum and description by them : the 

 specimen from which I originally described being, 

 probably, one that had been disclosed so long from 

 the pupa, as to change the colour of its hirsuties. 

 Panzer's figure, which evidently belongs to the 

 male of our insect, was taken from one in the same 

 predicament; and if I am right in my reference to 

 Fabricius, concerning which, however, I have my 

 doubts, his description was drawn from one of this 

 sort too. GeoiFroy for his, " Abeille a levre jaune 

 et anneaux du ventre blanchatres," which appears 

 synonymous with this variety, refers to one descri- 

 bed in the first edition of the Fauna Suecica, but 

 which afterwards seems to have been omitted by 

 Linneus. This, however, although it belongs, I 

 think, to the present family, I suspect to be a dif- 

 ferent species, perhaps A. himaciilata ; for Linneus 

 says of it : "Abdomen nigrum scgmentis villosis ca- 

 nis 5 vel 6," which implies that not the margins only, 

 but the whole of these segments was covered with 

 hoary hairs. Geoffroy says of this j4pis : " Cette 

 espece forme dans la terre des trous horizontaux 

 qui sont fort longs et divises au bout en plusieurs 

 cellules. On voit ces trous dans les terreins cou- 

 pes perpendiculairement en forme de murs(^)." 

 From an inspection of the female, of which I had 

 seen no specimen, when I made the arrangement 

 adopted in my synopsis, 1 find that ^. rotundata 



(^) Tom. 2. p. 413, 414. 



ought 



