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inflected, and furnished with exterior lacinia pa!- 

 pigerous just below their apex(^), but the inter- 

 mediate lacinia is neither flat nor emarginate. In 

 the two families of Melhta, included in this genus^ 

 though fiat, it cannot be called elongate, or 

 emarginate (/), and its lateral auricles (?w), are 

 neither palpigerous nor corneous, but consist of a 

 thin membrane- With respect to the term com- 

 pressed, understood according to the definition of 

 Fabricius, it will apply to neither of these linguae. 

 That oi Apis being cylindrical, and that of Melitta 

 depressed or fiat; 



How are we to account for insects differing so 

 widely in their Intriimenta ciharia being put into 

 the same genus? The truth appears to be, that 

 instead of taking the trouble of examining these 

 organs in individuals^ Fabricius referred all species 

 to this genus, whose body was narrow and cylin- 

 drical : this is evidently the reason why the males 

 of one family of Melitta, though agreeing with the 

 other sex in their proboscis, are separated from 

 them and inserted here. Any entomologist, who 

 Tvas at all in the habit of studying the genus Apis, 

 upon a slight comparison of Hyla'us truncorum^ 

 maxiUosus, &c. with //. annidatus, or H. quadri- 

 cinctus, orjlavipes, &c. without examining their 

 oral instruments, would be convinced that they 

 belonged to a different division. So that in the 



{k) Tab. 9. **. c. 2. y. fig. 3. Ih. dd. {I) Tab. 1. *. b. 



fig. 1. c. and Tab. 2. **. b. fig. 2. (w) Ibid, a a. 



arrangement 



