200 FAMILL^E. {Apis. **. e. 2.) 



tine e setis instructs ; Digitis articulis spinuloso- 

 setosis ; ScopuUs plerumque auratis ; Ungniculis 

 ^pice bifidls ; Ahdomine oblongo, interdum et 

 subtriangulari, subprismatico, basi retuso, supra 

 convexo, ano acutiusculo. 



Maris MaxilliB minores, apice bidentatscj dente 

 interiori minuto, barbatas barba incurva, supra to- 

 mentosae. Tibiae postlcae nee corbicula neque 

 pectine instructae^ plerisque supra pilos?e. Plantce' 

 posticae absque auricula. Anus obtusiusculus. 



Obs. In hac familia In aUe superioris reticulationu 

 areola marginali striga nigricans plerumque inclu-- 

 ditur{x); pedum geniculi extus sa^pius tomentoso-pal- 

 lidi; tarsi e pilis sparsis decumhentihiis certo situ 

 vel suhincani vel fulvescentes ; sub luce scopulce plu- 

 rimorum aureo splendore micant. 



The principal characters^ besides their hirsute 

 body, which distinguish the Bombinatrices from the 

 hive bee and its affinities, are the cross impressed 

 upon their vertex, their stemmata arranged in a 

 curve, instead of a triangle, their lip unequal in 

 surface, their maxillae sulcate on their upper side, 

 and the spines which arm the apex of their poste- 

 rior tibiae ; besides this the females, as well as the 

 neuters, are furnished with the corbicula, and with 

 the auricle at the base of the plantae of the last pair 

 of legs, not to mention other slighter differences; 

 in other respects the individuals of both sections, of 

 this family exactly agree together. 



(x) Tab. 13. fig. 17. a. 



With 



