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Pel A T E-Cxe 
APIS CENTUNCULARIS, 
CARPENTER BEE 
HYMENOPTERA. 
Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the females armed 
with a fting. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Jaws, with a Trunk deflexed. Antenne elbowed in the middle, 
firft joint longeft. Wings plain. Body hairy. E 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Black. Body long, narrow. Head, Thorax, and Legs covered 
with greyifh hair. Abdomen fmooth, beneath covered with tawny 
hair. 
Apis Centuncularis, nigra, ventre lana fulva.—Sy/?. Ent. 385. 42.— 
Linn. Syft, Nat. 2. 575. 4. edit. 10. 
Geoff. Inf. 2. 410. 5. 
Scop. carn. 799. 
Reaum. Inf. 6. tab. 10. fig. 3, 4s 
Fab, Spec. Inf. 1. 486. 59. 
_ The wonderful inftin@ that dire&ts the fmalleft Infes to provide 
for the fafety of their future progeny, never fails to ftrike the attention 
_ f the inquifitive refearcher into their oeconomy.—To perpetuate their 
race 
