154 FAMILI^. (Apis. **. c. 1. ec.) 



have a conic acute abdomen have been referred by 

 most entomologists to the one, and those that have 

 •jfc similar anal spines to the other. This is the effect 

 of fixing upon such characters to distinguish a 

 species, as are rather the sexual distinctions of a 

 family or subdivision. 1 have seen more than one 

 good species amongst the exotic ^pes of Mr. 

 Drury's museum : and there is another in Sir Jo- 

 seph Banks's, that came from New Holland, with 

 violet coloured wings, which appears to me very 

 distinct, though Fabricius has given it as variety ^ 

 of u4pis conica^ Apis tridentata, and perhaps A, 

 harhara of Linneus, belong to the present subdi- 

 vision. A. hidentata of Panzer (w), is the genuine 

 u4. conica of the Linnean cabinet. The Jl. conica 

 of Fabricius appears to be the other sex of that 

 species which in this work I have named A, inermis. 

 Upon the mode of nidification of the insects that 

 l^elong to this subdivision, I have nothing to com- 

 municate, nor do I recollect a single author who 

 has given any account of it; for that Apis in 

 Reaumur (.r), to which Linneus has too hastily re- 

 ferred as Apis conica, is the male of one of the leaf 

 cutter bees, and belongs to the first subdivison of 

 the second section of this family. 

 * *. c. 1. /S. (t/) 

 H. F. A. Corpus lineare, cylindricum, subvillo- 

 ^um ; Capite trunco angustiori, rotundato ; Pro^ 



(u) Fn. Germ. Init. n. 5g. t. '7. (x) Tom. 6. Mem. 4, 



J). 121. Tab.41. fig. 4. (y) Tab. 7. **. c. 1. ^. 



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