APIS, (**. d. 2. a.) 295 



ought to follow j4. himaculata, which it resembles 

 in many respects. 



A. PALLICINCTA. Qj . 



Since the printing of my synopsis, 1 have again 

 seen the insect which I had described under this 

 name, and find it to be M.fodiens before noticed (r). 

 I drew my description of it long ago, before I was 

 acquainted with the characters which distinguish 

 my first family of Melitta, from a specimen, the 

 only one I had then seen, in Mr.Drury's cabinet (^), 

 the structure of whose proboscis I could not as- 

 certain. As it seemed to have a general resem- 

 blance to some of the individuals of this family, 

 particularly A. rotundata, I placed it next to that 

 insect; although I observed even then that it want- 

 ed one of the most prominent characters of the 

 subdivision, the os crassum. A year or two after* 

 this I took it myself, and finding its instrumenta 

 cibaria to be those of a Melitta possessing peculiar 

 characters, I did not recollect that it was the same 



insect I had described before as an Apis. 



\ 

 68, A. atra, albido-subvillosa ; abdomine subglo- ^?^^^Zoio- 

 boso. '°" 



MUS. D.Haworth. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 4|-. 

 Hal. In Anglia. Hanc unicam vidi. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS atrum, pube cinerea. 



(r) Supr. p. 34, 35. {s) Apis, n. 35. 



u 3 Caput 



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