TERMINI; lO^ 



of the anterior- tibia, is figured though not par-^ 

 ticularly noticed, by DeGecr (/;). 



Scopa. This term, which is used by Schrank tb 

 denote another part, to whicli I have given its 

 diminutive as a name, 1 have adopted to signify 

 the thick coat of hairs which externally covers the 

 posterior tibiae of many of these insects, by means 

 of which they probably brush the pollen from the 

 flowers, and in which, when they have collected^ 

 they carry it. 



r.':CorBcula: Reauinur has noticed the fringe of 

 hairs, which this term is intended to denote, from 

 whom, indeed, I borrowed it. He says that it 

 forms with the cavity of the tibia " une espSce de 

 corheille {q) ." 



Manus. The anterior legs of insects are dis-* 

 tinguished from the four posterior ones by point- 

 ing towards the head instead of the abdomen, I 

 have therefore denominated their tarsus ■ by the 

 term manus. 



Pahna. :Planta... Digitus. The first of these 

 Jerms I have restricted to the elongate joint at the 

 l^ase of the anterior tarsus or manus, and the second 

 to the same part of the four posterior ones, ciot 

 ploying tlie word digitus to express the remaining 

 ai'ticulations taken together. These parts in this 

 genus, especially in the posterior tarsus, are so re- 



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, V :,(-j!.) XJUi.^sja£. JTab. 32. fig. ,1.1 . intraior part of /. • .{ ^ Ubi 

 sup. p. 3ob. Tab. i6. fig. 2 — 6. p. and'fig. 11^ t&£SS' -.■: l-^''^ 

 i-Tfi markable 



