APIS. (**. e,2.) 3ig 



Of these varieties I take a to be the female ; y 

 and 5 to be the neuters of the largest size(y) ; and 

 s the small neuter; /S I suspect may be a distinct 

 species, in size it is intermediate between a. and y. 

 Variety $, of the male, is considerably less than cc, 

 but it differs from it very slightly in other respects; 

 it may be the male of variety /3 of the other sex, 

 but both are too similar to the rest to be separated, 

 without a nest could be found, which contained 

 them alone. Variety y, of the male, is u4. senilis 

 of Pabricius, as appears by the specimen in Sir 

 J. Banks's cabinet, which he labelled. The cine- 

 reous hue of its hirsuties is merely occasioned by 

 age ; the thorax, even in this, retains a tinge, very 

 faint indeed, of its original colour. 



75. A. hirsuto-cinerascens; thorace, abdomIneque,Frana7- 



fulvis. ^°"^^^"' 



Bomlylius mediae magnitudinis, toto corpore, tam tho- 

 race quam abdomine, sordide rufo. 

 ttai. Hist. Ins. p. 248, /2. 13. 

 FIG, Tab. 17. Jig. 13. 



MUS. D. Mar sham, Latham, M^Leay, Haworth, Trimmer ^ 

 Lathlury, Kirly. 



Long, Corp, Lin. 4 — 5. 

 Hah. Barhamix, prsecedenti rarior. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS hirsuto-cinereum. 



Caput atro-subhirsutum. O^barbarufa. PrO' 



(y) Reaum. torn. 6. Pref. p, 5, 



loscis 



