APIS. (**. e. 2.) 345 



Maris Maxillie pallidas, barbd nigr^. ylntennce 

 capite longiores, articulis rectiusculis. Ver- 

 tex villis citrinis. Thorax antice fascia ci- 

 trina. Squamul^e piceae. uil^e dilutiores, 

 venis tenuioribus testaceis. Spinulie nigrae. 

 Scopulce ferrugineae, vix auratae. Abdomen 

 triangulare, subacuminatuirij segmento primo 

 villorum flavidorum, penicillo utrinque orna- 

 to. ^niis albus, extremitate nigro-villosus, 

 baud inflexus. 

 Var. /S adultior ; thoracis fascia, scutello, abdo- 

 minisque basi hirsuto-cinerascentibus. 

 y thoracis basi et apice obscure flavescen- 

 tibus ; abdominis basi immaculata. 

 Obs. In qnihusdam sciitellum mgricat. 

 In honorem D. Barbut, qui Insectoram et Ver- 



miiiin Geneva. Jiguris illustravit. 

 This insect exhibits the same peculiar charac- 

 ters as ^. campestris. A. aiitnmnalis of Fabricius, 

 A. saltuum of Panzer, and A. monacha of Chris- 

 tius appear to me to be all intended for variety /S of 

 the male. This variety is common late in the year 

 upon thistles, and is nothing more than a grown 

 grey from age : its wings, when it is in this state, 

 will always be found to be torn at their tips. The 

 synonym of Ray, n. 15. I refer to the aculeate of 

 this Apis, because he says, " Superior area lata est, 

 et media parte in angulum excurrit ad frontem," 

 which is exactly the case with ours. His descrip- 

 tion was probably taken from a specimen in which 

 the hair was faded. 



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