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IS Intended to denote that part of the proboscis 

 which is seated between the maxilla or valvulce, 

 - and from which the posterior palpi are produced ; 

 as applied by Fabricius, in his genera in this class, 

 it includes both the real tongue, and that part 

 which I have denominated tubus Qi), or its corneous 

 base : if it had been confined to the latter, and 

 called labium inferius, it would have been proper 

 enough (z) ; but, as it now stands, that part which 

 collects, absorbs, and passes the honey down into 

 the stomach is called labium, which is certainly 

 very improper, not to say absurd. Under this 

 head are to be considered those parts, defending the 

 tongue where it issues from the tube, which he 

 calls seta, or lingua lacinicef. lamina interiores (Ji) ; 

 which terms include what, in my first genus Me- 

 litta, are named auricula (/), and in j4pis, lacinia 

 interiores (m) . The term seta is often not properly 

 applicable to them. His labii lacinia laterales (n) 

 f, exteriores (o) answer to my lacinia exterior es (p). 

 MAXILLA, is thus defined. " Maxilla dua 

 tr ansver sales y sapius membranacea, latera oris 



(h) Tab. 1 1 . ubi supra d. (I) As this part embraces 



and seems connate with the lower part of the tongue, which it 

 defends externally, I preferred another term to lal'mm. 



[k) See his Natural Characters of Fespa, Andrena, Apis, &c. 



(/) Tab. 2, * *, a fig. 1. dd, and b. fig. 2. aa, 



{m) Tab. 11. * *. d. 2. a. fig. l.ff. («) See his Nat. 



Char, of Apis. (o) Entom. Syst. torn.' 3. p. 307. under 



Ilylaus Morio, and p. 343. under Eucera longicor?iis. 



{p.) Tab. 11. ubi supra ee, 



infern^ 



