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PLATE CVIII. 



F I G. I. 



APIS LAPIDARIA. 



Large Red-tail Bee. 



hymenoptera. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the Female armed 

 with a fting. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Jaws, with a trunk bent downwards. Antennas elbowed in the 

 middle, firft joint longeft. Wings plain. Body hairy. Abdomen 

 connected by a pedicle, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Entirely black except the tail, which is red. 



Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. ^6o. 44, 

 Fn. Sv. 1 701. 

 Geo^. Inf. 2. 417. 

 Fabri, Spec. Inf. i. 477. ly. 



In Plate LXXXVIII. of this work I gave a figure of the Small 

 Apis Lapidaria, Red-tail Bee, which is well known as a native of 

 this country j but declined including a figure of the largeft kind, until 

 .1 could affirm on credible authority it had been taken in England alfo. 



I have lately had the good fortune to be fatisfied in this particular ; 



Lord William Seymour favoured me with the fpecimen from 



3 which 



