lb MONOGRAPHIA .EGERIARUM ANGLIC. 



Genus VII. tEgeria, Fabrichis. 



Palpi breves : antlia brevis, quasi imperfecta : antennas thorace 

 breviores, maris pectinatae : abdomen crassum. baud barbatum. 



The typical genus, as might be expected, partakes more of 

 the characters of the typical family, than do any of its cognate 

 genera. The formation of the antennae is little more than a 

 modification of that of the antennae of Cossus : the beardless 

 and heavy abdomen, the imperfect mouth, the minute palpi, 

 and the general sluggish character, also evince the near rela- 

 tion of this family to the typical group. The restoration of 

 the original name to this genus is unavoidable. The name 

 Trochilium" was first applied by Scopoli to the whole of 

 this family, and intended for those species to which I have 

 applied it, and not particulai'ly to the species Apiformis 

 and Bembeciformis. The Fabrician genus j^igeria, also 

 comprised the whole Family. Hubner was the first who sepa- 

 rated these two species under the name, Sphecia, which 

 name I should, as a matter of course, have adopted, had not I 

 considered it imperative to give the Fabrician name to the 

 typical genus, i. e. to the species which Fabricius himself 

 considered typical : moreover, the family having already re- 

 ceived the name j^geriidce, it is important that its central and 

 typical genus should retain the derivative of that name. 



Sp. 1. 7Eg. Apiformis. Palpi fiain: caput jlmnim : thorax 

 fusco-ater, antice maculis duabus fiatis : abdomen flavum 

 cingtdis fusco-atris. 



Apiformis. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 804. Sp. 29. 



Id. Bork. Fab. De Geer. Esper. hasp. Haw. &c. 



Id. Steph. III. {Haust.) Vol. 1. p. 137. Sp. 1. 



Id. Curtis, B.E. 372**. 



of Hubner, and could not have given them here, had it not been for that gentle- 

 man's kind assistance. I should, perhaps, however mention, that I do not know 

 on what characters Hubner's Genera are founded ; my own were divided and 

 arranged as at present, before I was aware that that great Lepidopterist had 

 previously gone over the same ground. 



" Trochilium was applied to this group from their fancied resemblance to 

 liumming-birds, and is not appropriate to Apiformis and Bembeciformis, nor 

 intended to refer to them: these were included to save sub-division. Vid. 

 Scopoli's Entomologia Carniolica. 



