APIS. (**. e. 2.) 333 



Age, as I have before observed, makes a great 

 alteration in the colour of the hirsuties of the Bom- 

 binatrices. The bright and beautiful yellow, which 

 adorns the insect before us when recently disclosed, 

 fades, in such as are old, to a pale, dirty yellow. 

 From a specimen in this state, Schrank probably 

 drew his description, for I have no doubt of this 

 being his A. sylvarum. A specimen of this insect 

 in my cabinet, has one leg covered with cinereous 

 hairs, while those of the other £ve are black. 



86. A. atra, hirsuta; thorace antice, scutello, axio-Leeana, 



que, flavis. 



MUS. Kirly, 



Long. Corp. Lin. 6|. 

 Hal. Barhamiae, semel capta. 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS atrum, hirsutum. 



Caput subglobosum, totum atrum. Antennte 

 vix thoracis longitudine, articulis subarcuatis. 



Truncus supra antice hirsuto-sulphureus, qui 

 color in pleuras incurrit, dein ater, scutello 

 obscure flavo. Squamulce piceae. Alx sub^ 

 coloratae, apice obscuriores ; nervis ferrugi- 

 neis, costd picea. Vedes atri, hirti, Spinulie 

 castaneae. Scopulce ferrugineae. Digiti rufo- 

 picei. 



Abdomen triangulare, hirsutum, segmentis du- 

 obus anticis atris, reliquis sulphureis. Ani ex- 

 tremitas atra, 



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