la APIS. (**. d. 2. a. ,5.) 



This Httle insect varies somewhat from the cha- 

 racters cf the present family, for the valvulae, in- 

 stead of being strait, are incurved ; and the inte- 

 rior laciniae are not pointed at their tips; in gene- 

 ral habit, also, it is unlike the rest of the individuals 

 that compose this section. It is, however, more 

 nearly related to this, than any other family; for 

 it exhibits the following characters, which com- 

 bined are peculiar to it : its exterior palpi, namely, 

 consist of six articulations, and its interior of two ; 

 not to mention that the nose and lip, of the male, 

 are of a different colour from those of the other 

 sex, a circumstance which usually distinguishes 

 the insects of this section. A. cyanea approaches 

 so near to A. ccerulea of Villers, that I strongly 

 suspect it to be merely a variety of that insect; in 

 that case it ought to be denominated by the name 

 he has given it. 



* *. d. 2. /3. 

 rkohr. 72. A. violacea, supra glabra; alis nigricantibus. 



FIG. Drury. Ins. vol. ] . p. 108. tol. 45. fg. 3. 



Tah.iy.fis.g- 



MUS. D. Latham, Drury Spec. exot. Kirly Spec, e.xot. 

 Long. Corp. Lin, 8. 

 Hal. In Anglic ) D. Latham. E.\ insula Jamaicensi 

 allatam accepit D. Drury. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS violaceum, supra glabrum. 



Caput 



