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_ confidered as the fame fpecies: Linnzeus does indeed, notice this ° 
- diffimilarity of their fize in his defcription, and fays one is three times 
Jarger than the other, &c. whence we may conclude that it was after 
mature deliberation he had ventured to place the fmalleft as a variety 
of the other *.—I do not know whether the largeft has ever been 
taken in England; the {pecimen of it, in the Linnean Collection, is 
a Swedifh Infect: the fmalleft (which we have figured) is well known 
as a native of this country. 
It is not found fo frequently as moft other fpecies of the Apis genus; 
it lives among heaps of loofe ftones; its honey is ftrong. 
Pd: Ill, 
TENTHREDO VITELLINE: 
Tee oa 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Abdomen of equal thicknefs, and clofely united to the thorax. 
Sting ferrated, between two valves. Second wings fhorteft. 
SPECIFIG CHARACTER. 
Antenne clavated. Abdomen above black, very hairy, with a 
lateral line of rufous. Legs yellowifh. Thighs behind dentated. 
T. V. Antennis clavatis, abdomine fupra nigro, lateribus rufis, femo- 
ribus pofticis dentatis. Sy/?. Ent. 318. 6. 
T.V. Aatennis clavatis, ore elabiato, abdomine rufo dorfo nigro, 
femoribus potticis dentatis. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 921. 5.—Fn. Sv. 1535+ 
Streem. Sundm. 171. Tab. 10. Fig. 116 
* 66 Varietas triplo minor, vix diftinéta.” 
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