FAMILI^. {Apis. *f. b.) 151 



cnla, glabrS; Tuho lineari, apice tridentato dente 

 intermedio majori; Fulcro elongato, subclavato; 

 Laciniis exterioribus articulis asqualibus, interiori- 

 bus brevibus, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis; Falvulis 

 rectiusculis, apice lanceolato, obtuso; Palpis e\te~ 

 rioribus minutisslmis, exarticalatis; Stemmatihus 

 in lined curv^ ; Ociilis magnis, prominulis ; Naso 

 convexo ; Lahio antic^ eurvo ; Maxillis edentulis ; 

 jlntennis filiformibus, scapo brevi, pedicello minu^ 

 tissimo ; Scutcilo tuberculis duobus ; Tibiis posticis 

 scopd nulla; Unguicidis \Vi\.Q:gv\s'y Ah domine com- 

 co, acuto, ano dehiscentj^ 



Mas adhuc latet. 



The only species belonging to this family with 

 which I am acquainted at present, is the Apis vari- 

 egata of Linneus, a gay insect which Fabricius has 

 arranged with his Nomadce. It is, howev^er, quite 

 distinct from them, being furnished with exterior 

 laciniae, which are wanting in them; its exterior 

 palpi, likewise, consist only of a single joint and 

 are very minute, so as not to be easily discoverable 

 except under a lens. The spots which variegate 

 its body are produced by decumbent hairs. Its 

 conical abdomen and dehiscent anus connect it 

 with the family to which Apis conica belongs, but 

 it wants the inflected lip. Though the females in 

 some summers are not rare flying about warm dry 

 banks, I never yet met with a male. Nomada cru-e- 

 cigera of Panzer appears to be merely a variety of 

 this insect. 



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