318 BRITISH BEES. 



Subsection 2. WITHOUT SPUES TO THE POSTEEIOE TIBLE. 

 JJ Permanently social. 



Genus 27. APIS, Linnaus. 



(Plate XVI. fig. 4 <? ? ? .) 

 APIS ** e 1, Kirby. 



Gen. Char. : THE NEUTER. BODY nearly cylindrical 

 and subpubescent. HEAD transverse, about as wide as 

 the thorax ; vertex and face deeply longitudinally chan- 

 nelled in the centre, the latter to the apex of a small 

 triangular elevated space between the insertion of the 

 aritennse, and extending to the base of the clypeus, the 

 sides of the face flat ; the ocelli rather large, seated far 

 back upon the vertex in a triangle, the anterior one in 

 the depth of the longitudinal channel, the two lateral 

 ones placed further back towards the occiput in a trans- 

 verse indentation crossing the longitudinal one; com- 

 pound eyes very pubescent ; the hexagonal facets very 

 minute ; antennae short, filiform, geniculated ; the scape 

 nearly half the length of the flagellum and subfusiform, 

 the basal joint of the flagellum globose, the second sub- 

 clavate and subequal with the remainder, very slightly 

 lengthening to the apical joint, which is compressed 

 and as short as the second ; clypeus quadrate, convex ; 

 labrum transverse, linear, slightly waved in front ; man- 

 dibles broad at the apex, edentate, obliquely truncated 

 and concavo-convex ; cibarial apparatus shortish ; tongue 

 nearly twice the length of the labium, linear, pubescent, 

 and terminating in a small knob; paraglossce obsolete, 

 coadunate with the base of the tongue; labial palpi not 

 quite so long as the tongue, the first joint four times as long 

 as the remainder, and tapering from the base to the apex 

 of the second joint, which is about one-fourth the length 

 of the preceding, and has the two very short terminal 



