APIS. (**. d. 2. $.) 3ll 



Caput punctatum, atro-pilosum. Genie lar- 

 batae. Antemice capitis fere longitudine^ ni- 

 grae, subtus pallidas. 

 Truncus. TAom^ glaber, nitidissimus, iricolor, 

 linea longitudinali intermedia impressus, punc- 

 tatus disco laevissimo. Metathorax et Pectus 

 atro-pubescentia. Squamulie violaceae. j4l(e 

 fusco-nigrae. Pedes violacei, atro-hirti. Plan- 

 tee atree, undique hirsutissimae. Digiti picei. 

 Abdomen subiricolor, latum, supra glabrum, 

 punctulatum. Anus fimbria atra. Venter 

 anum versus atro-hirtus, 

 This most beautiful insect is in Dr. Latham's 

 cabinet, amongst his English Apes, but he does 

 not recollect where it was taken, or upon what 

 authority he considers it as English (o). It has 

 been received from Jamaica by Mr. Drury, who 

 has given an excellent figure of it, of which I was 

 not aware when I caused it to be engraved for this 

 work. I have also received it from Mr. Marsham. 

 Its place ought to be next to A. violacea, Linn, 

 which it a good deal resembles, except that, in- 

 stead of black, its body is violet ; and, on the con- 

 trary, the wings, instead of violet, are black. The 

 prismatic hues upon the thorax are very brilliant ; 

 upon the abdomen they are much fainter. Since I 

 wrote the natural character of this section, I find that 

 the interior laciniae, of the insects that belonp; to it, 

 are lineari-lanceolate, and shorter than the exterior, 

 (o) Vid. supr, vol. 1. p. 191. 



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