176 FAMILIiE. {Apis. **. c. 2. /3. y.) 



its cell. In that opened in the spring it appeared 

 to be dead. I imagine, when Sir Thomas Cullum 

 first took them, that they were just ready for their 

 first change ; but that the alteration occasioned by 

 removing the nest from the situation the parent 

 insect had chosen for it, was fatal to some, if not 

 all, of its inhabitants. The larva does not differ 

 materially from those of other Apes(^). Amongst 

 the wool, which, I suppose, formed the general 

 envelope of the nest, were masses of honey, or a 

 sweet pollen paste. 



This bee is very common in gardens in towns, 

 or in the neighbourhood of towns. I never met 

 with it in my own garden, or in the country. 



* #. c. 2. y. (e) 



H. F. A. Corpus elotigato-cylindricum, sub- 

 pilosum ; Capite trunco paulo latiori, subgloboso ; 

 Lingua tenui ; Tiiho apice tridentato, dente inter- 

 medio majori ; Fulcro subtriangulari ; Lacinik 

 exterioribus articulo primo brevessimo ; Falvulis 

 apice lanceolato-lineari, concavo, submembranaceo, 

 linea longitudinali cornea ; Palpis exterioribus bi^ 

 articulatis, interloribus exarticulatis ; Stemmatihus 

 ih triangulo ; Naso convexo ; Lahid elongato, in- 

 fiexo, concavo-convexo ; Maxillis basi latioribus,, 

 apice bidentatis ; jintennis subclavatis, pedicello 

 magno, subovato ; Ahdomine sublineari, anum ver- 

 sus paulo latiori; Ventre lana pollinifera subhirsuto. 

 (cf) Tab. 14, n, 11. fig. 18. (f)Tab,9. **. c.2. r. i/a^<:ea^,Fab, 



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