APIS. (**. e. 2.) 37 



very near to it. Geoffroy describes it, I think, 

 under the same name, but neither of these is the 

 A. suhterranea of the Linnean cabinet. 



nea. 



109. A. atra, hirsuta, ano fasco; capite masciilo?«^^<-'/TG- 

 subgloboso ; maxillis supra tomentoso-fulvis. 



Apis sulterranea hirsuta, atra, ano'fusco. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. ^ Gmd. p. 2783. n. 51. Fiu 

 Suec.n.1718. 



Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. n. 37. 



Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. «. 104. 



Ross. Fn. Etrusc. Mantiss. n.315. 



Miill. Zool. Dan. n. IQ2S. 



Forst. Cat. Brit. Ins. n. 730. Apis, «. 24. 

 FIG. Harris. Exp. Eng. Ins. tab. 3S.fg. S. Mas. 

 'MUS. D. Smith Linnean, Fern. Maisham, Kirly Mas. 

 Long. Corp. Lin. 7- 



Hab. Barhamiae. Ferainam in Anglia nondum vidi. 



DESCR. Mas(;«). 



CORPUS atrum, hirsutum. 



Caput subglobosum. MaxiUiB supra sericeo- 

 flavescentes, barba nigricanti. Antennae tho- 

 racis fere longitudine, articulis subarcuatis. 



Trunclts ater, immaculatus. Squamulo' piceae. 

 Alee subcoloratas, apice paulo obscuriores, ner- 



(m) The only specimen of the other sex, that I have ever 

 seen, is that preserved in the Linnean cabinet, I shall add the 

 particulars in which it differs from the one I have described 

 above as the male. 



Feminoe Caput subtriangulare. Alee coloratoe nerv'is nigris. 

 Scopuke fuscae. Abdomen subtriangulare, hirsutum, atrum, 

 ano miniis nigro, / pilis fuliginosis sordideque albidis tecto. 

 Long. Corp. Lin. 10. 



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