FAMILIM. {Apis. **. e. 2.) 20^ 



of their anus, whether yellow, white, or red, and 

 finally come such as are entirely black. 



After my Synopsis Speciermn, containing the 

 above arrangement, was printed, 1 discovered, what 

 had escaped me before, that four different species, 

 one of which had a yellow, two a white, and one a 

 red anus, were deprived of some of the characters 

 of the Bomhinatrices, having neither corbicula, nor 

 pecten at the apex of the tibiae, nor auricle at the 

 base of the plantae, of the posterior legs, at the 

 same time exhibiting some peculiar to themselves. 

 This circumstance offers an opportunity for a na- 

 tural subdivision of this section of the family, found- 

 ed upon other characters than colour; the follow- 

 ing peculiarities distinguish the members of it; in 

 their proboscis, and other respects, they agree ex- 

 actly with the others. 



Labium antice obtusangulum(e). 

 Macciilce forcipatas, apice oblique truncatap(/*). 

 Tibice posticce supra convexae, pilosa?, nee cor- 

 bicula, neque pectine instructa2(^"). 

 Plantie posticae absque auricula (A). 

 jlbdomen oblongum, ano, in mortuo, saepius 

 inflexo; ventre segmento ultimo in angu- 

 lum utrinque protenso(/). 

 Maris Maxilla apice bidentatae. uibdomen tri- 

 angulares incurvum, subacuminatum. 



(e) Tab. 13. fig. 12. (/) Ibid. fig. 27. 

 (g) Ibid. fig. 22. a. (h) Ibid. fig. 23. 



(0 Ibid, fig, 25. aa. 



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