86 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



NOMADA. Langue d'une piece, av^ec deux tres- 

 petites soies laterales. 



This character is accurate, but it would also take 

 in my first family of ^pis (e). 



APIS. Langue de trois pieces. (Organes de la 

 nutrition plus petits dans les males). 



In this character the interior laciniee are overlooked. 

 The Caractere Habitue! of this genus seems to have 

 been drawn from ^, meUifica, for it thus describes 

 the eyes : " Yeuoc entiers alongees, occupant tout le 

 front dans- les males ;" a circumstance which is pe- 

 culiar to that sex of that species. And of the 

 neuter it says, " Premier article des tarses tres- 

 grands, strie transversaJement dans les mulets" 

 which is the peculiarity of the working hive bee. 



EUCERA. Langue de cinq pieces. Antennes 

 souvent plus longues que le corps. 



This character is accurate as far as it goes. The 

 long antennce, as before observed, are a sexual dis- 

 tinction. 



I cannot conclude these remarks without in- 

 serting a passage which I lately met with in Ray's 

 Letters, from w-hich it will appear that that skilful 

 entomolomst Dr. Martin Lister had a distinct idea 

 of the Hymenoptera class. " I cannot, methinks/' 

 says he, in a letter addressed to Ray, " exclude 

 these hairtailed insects from the family or genus 



(e)Tab,4. *. a. fig. 4. o«. Tab, 5. vv, b. fig. 3, 



