2. NO MAD A. Ill 



Nyland. Nutis. tir Stillsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 180. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 183. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 96 ; Hym. Scand. ii. 189. 

 Apis ruficornis, Linn. Syst. Kat. i. 958 ; et Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. J . 



Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 210 $> . 

 Noniada fiava, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 21 <£ . 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 391. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 488. 



Lucas. Kvpl. Sc. Ab/cr. iii. 221. 



Nyland. Xotis. ur Stilish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 179. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 187. 

 Apis flava, Kirhy, lib. cit. 186 $ . 

 Apis leucopkthalma, Kirby, lib. cit. 197 var. S ■ 



V, male. Length 3-5 lines. — Head and thorax black, the clypeus 

 and a spot above it, a line encircling the eyes, the labrum, man- 

 dibles, and antennae rufous ; the scape has sometimes a black line 

 at the sides. Thorax — the collar, tubercles, and a large patch on 

 the sides beneath the wings, an epaulet over the tegulae, the scu- 

 tellum, two minute spots beneath uniting with a larger patch on 

 each side of the metathorax, two broad stripes on the disk, the 

 tegulae and legs rufous ; the femora more or less black at the base 

 beneath ; the coxae and trochanters also sometimes stained ; the 

 wings fusco-hyaline and having a dark narrow fuscous cloud at 

 their apical margins, and a more or less defined hyaline spot beyond 

 the third submarginal cell. Abdomen rufous, the base and the 

 apical margins of the segments more or less black, the second seg- 

 ment having on each side a large angular yellow macula, the two 

 following a broad fascia, and the fifth a large quadrate spot, yellow ; 

 beneath sometimes obscurely variegated with yellow-testaceous 

 bands or spots. B.M. 



Male, Length 3-5 lines. — Black ; the scape in front, the clypeus, 

 the face on each side, the labrum, and mandibles yellow ; the latter 

 ferruginous at their tips ; the flagellum ferruginous, four or five of 

 the basal joints above, as well as the scape above, black. Thorax 

 black ; the tubercles, two spots on the scutellum, and the legs 

 rufous ; the coxa?, except at the apex, black ; the trochanters 

 behind, the anterior and intermediate femora beneath at the base, 

 and the posterior pair, except a line above, black ; sometimes a 

 black line on the tibiae behind. Abdomen rufous, the base black, 

 the second and following segments having a broad yellow band ; 

 the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous ; beneath, the 

 second and following segments have a transverse broad yellow 

 macula ; sometimes entirely rufous beneath, or varied with indis- 

 tinct fuscous bands and yellow spots ; the yellow bands on the ab- 

 domen above are frequently much attenuated in the middle, one or 

 two of the apical ones being sometimes interrupted. B.M. 



"Var. /3 of Kirby is a dark variety that has two yellow spots on the 

 third ventral segment ; var. y is a female of N. ochrostoma ; and 

 var. Z is a small variety of the same. This is the most variable 

 species in the genus in coloration, and also in size ; the latter 



