STREPSIPTERA. 287 
Melipona described by St. Fargeau, in his Hist. Nat. Hymenopt., a 
single male only was observed; and it is probable that not a single 
female exists in collections —neuters only being known. This author 
has added another genus, Tetragona, established upon the neuters of 
other Brazilian species ; and Messrs. Kirby and Spence observe (Introd. 
vol. iv. p. 497.) that the honey bee is replaced in New Holland by 
another distinct but undescribed type.* 

Orver STREPSIPTERA+ Kirby. 
(RarpipterA Latr.; Dirrera RuterpopTerA Lamarck.) 
Cuar. Anterior wings transformed into a pair of short slender con- 
torted appendages ; posterior wings very large, folding longitudi- 
nally like a fan. 
Mouth with two slender acute jaws, wide apart, and two large 
biarticulate palpi. 
Tarsi 2-, 3-, or 4-jointed. 
Larva apod and vermiform, with a flattened head. 
Pupa coarctate and inactive. 
Fig. 93. 

We are now arrived at a small group of insects, which may be re- 
* The Horticultural Society of London, in 1825, received a hive of bees from 
New Holland, differing materially from the bees of Europe, “ being infinitely smaller 
and wholly without stings.” (Literary Gazette, 1825, p. 443.) 
+ Brstiocr. Rerer. To THE STREPSIPTFRA, 
Rossi. Fauna Etrusca Mantissa (tab. 8. fig. B. 6., Suppl. tom. ii. p. 114. pl. 7. 
£uB:) 
Kirby, in Monogr. Apum Angl. vol. ii. p. 111, — Ditto, in Sowerby’s British 
