goo APIS. (**, d. 2. «.) 



pra hlrsuto-fulvum, ano nigro-villoso. Ani 



nigritudo " non abrupt^ incipit, sed ipsa 



baseos flavedo quibusdam vcluti umbris, 



penumbrisque in earn degencrat(^). Ven- 



ter apud anum depressus, latcribus villoso- 



albicantibus. 



V^ar. /3 adultior, corpore supra hirsutie subgrisea, 



vel cinerascenti vestito ; naso flavo punc- 



tulis duobus nigris ; antennis scapo antror- 



sum flavo ; alias a, ut omm ovo, simillimus. 



From an inspection of the authentic specimen 

 preserved in the Linncan cabinet, I do not hesitate 

 to give the aculeate of the present u4pis as the ge- 

 nuine ji. retusa of Linncus. That specimen is, 

 indeed, smaller than our English ones usually are, 

 not quite so hairy, nor is its hair of so deep a black ; 

 but these circumstances appear to be entirely acci- 

 dental: insects of different climates, and some- 

 times those of the same, vary much in size ; and 

 the hair of an Apis newly disclosed from the pupa, 

 as to colour and density, is often very different 

 from that of the same individual when it has been 

 long exposed to wind ai.i weather. In other re- 

 spects the Linnean specimen is the very counter- 

 part of ours, and agrees exactly with the descrip- 

 tion in the Fauna Suecica. " Magnitudine A. mel- 

 lificcB. Corpus totum nigrum pubescens. Tibia 

 posticae dilatatae, extus vellere brevi, denso, flavo." 



(y) Schrank. Enum. Ins. Austr. p. Zgg. 



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