372 APIS. (**, e. 2.) 



vis picels tenuioribus ferrugineis. Pedes atri, 

 liirti. Spinuhr castaneas. Scopuhe ferrugi- 

 neac, subauratae. Digiti picei. 

 Abdomen subtriangulare, subacuminatum, hir- 

 sutum, atrum, ano minus iiigro/. fusco, qui 

 color e pills sordide pallidis nigrisque mixtis 

 exoritur. 

 Obs. j4ni pili pallidi densiores utrinqiie. 

 This insect differs so very slightly from the spe- 

 cimen of the Linnean cabinet, which is an aculeate, 

 that, I think, there can remain scarcely any doubt 

 of its being the male of ^. sublerranea. Linneus 

 referred to Ray n. 1. as synonymous with this, and 

 adopted GeofFroy's reference, neither of which be- 

 long to the true A. subterranea. Ray evidently 

 intending by his description A. lapidaria, and 

 GeofFroy A. rupestris, the former expressly noti- 

 cing the deep red anus that distinguishes the one, 

 and the latter the black wings which form the cha- 

 racteristic of the other (?i). Gmelin lias rectified 

 this error in some degree with respect to the sy- 

 nonym of Ray, by referring n. 1. to A. lapidaria, 

 but then in its room he refers n. 2. to A. sublerra- 

 nea, which we have just seen belongs to another 

 insect (o). 



(«) Upon reconsidering the synonym of Gcoffroy, I am not 

 clear that it belongs to .^1. rupestris, as he says of his, " II y » 

 quelques poils jauncs mais peu apparens autour du col " But 

 if it be not yi. rupestris, it is clearly more nearly allied to it, 

 than A. subterranea. 



(o) After my Sijnopsis Spccierum was printed^ upon going 



