304 APIS. (**. d. 2. a.) 



stone of tluit country (g-): a strong proof, as hil 

 description agrees with ours, that we both mean 

 the same insect. It is probable, that, in his tra- 

 vels, seeing this bee so plentiful about the walls, at 

 the place above-mentioned, he took it for a dif- 

 ferent species from the one he had seen less fre- 

 quent in other parts, and in a different situation* 

 As some doubts, however, must still remain, with- 

 out I could visit the very spot, where he found it, 

 I have placed a query after this synonym. 



The male of this u^pis is so totally unlike the 

 female, that it has been regarded by all authors, 

 not excepting even Linneus himself, as a distinct 

 species. In an interleaved edition of the Systema 

 Naturae, containing MS. notes of that great Na- 

 turalist, and now in the possession of the President 

 of the Linnean Society, (who, with his accustomed 

 liberality, has permitted me to copy such of them 

 as relate to the present genus), I find it described 

 under the name of ^. pennipes, and placed next to 

 Melitta cunicularia : upon the authority of For- 

 ster, it is said to be a native of North America : 

 it is inserted, under the same name, in Forster's 

 Catalogue of British Insects, published in 17 70. 

 Professor Pallas and Schrank, denominate it A, 

 plumipes. Fabricius, and after him Panzer, call 

 variety «, ji. Hlspanica (h) ; and variety /9, y/. pi' 



apes. 



(g) Kettering stone. 



{h) I am not quite certain that the J. His^panica of Fabriciu* 

 it synonymous with this j his description agrees : but ours in 



