30:j APIS. (**. d. 2. a.) 



the disk of the scopa, or brush, which covers the 

 underside of its abdomen, is tawny ; it belongs to 

 the same family with the j4beille mafonne of Reau- 

 mur (o), and I strongly suspect it to be the female 

 of that very insect, which that author describes in 

 terms which agree well with it. " hes uns doivent 

 devenir des abeilles tres-noires, aussi^ noires, mais 

 plus velues que les perce-bois; elles ont seulement 

 un peu de jaundtre en-dessous a leur partie posti- 

 rieure{b)" I shall give a fuller description of it in 

 the margin (c). Concluding that ji. retusa was 

 u4. acervorum, and unacquainted with any insect 

 that would agree with the Linnean character of 

 the latter, Fabricius has excluded it froni his last 

 work, Entomologia Systematica Emendata ct Auc- 

 ta, as a nonentity; expressing only a suspicion 

 that it may possibly be his yindreva pilipes{d). 

 With respect to other synonyms of the aculeate, 

 the insect Christius has figured for A. retusa (e) 



(a) Tom. 6. tftb. 7. fig. 1, 2, 3. It belongs to the fourth 

 subdivision, of the second section, of my family lalio infiexo. 

 {**. c. 2. S). 



(I') Reaum. ubi supr. Mem. 3. p. 6o, 



(c) DESCR. Acul. £'or/)//5 atrum, hirsutum, MaxilltBvaii- 



dx, dilatatse, apice extus bidentatae, dente exteriori acu- 

 to. Alee corpore longiores atro-violascentes. Pedes 

 atri, tarsis rufis. Abdomen subglobosum, atrum, un- 

 dicjue hirsutum, ventris scopi disco fulvo. 

 Long, Corp. Lin. 7- 



(d) MeUtta pilipes of tliis work, vid. supr. p. Qj, QS, 

 («f) Hyraenopt. p. II9. tab, 9. fig. 4. 



appears 



