134 INSECTA. 
Sometimes the palpi are very short; those of the maxillee have but 
four joints and the labials but two. Such is the 
B. rostrata; Apis rostrata, L.; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., I, 
10. The male large, black, with transversal bands of lemon- 
yellow on the abdomen, the first of which is interrupted, and 
the others undulated. The female, which has less yellow about 
the head than the male, forms deep holes in the sand, where she 
heaps up the bodies of various dipterous Insects, particularly 
Syrphi and Musce, and lays her eggs; she then closes the 
opening with earth. Throughout Europe(1). 
Sometimes the maxillary palpi, which are tolerably sik cae 
consist of six joints, and the labials of four, as in 
Moneputa, Lat.(2) 
The others have no false proboscis, and the labrum is short and 
rounded. Such is 
Stizus, Lat. Jur.(3) 
5. Other Fossores, having nearly the same appearance as those of 
the preceding division, differ from them in the labrum, which is 
either totally or partially hidden; their mandibles present a deep 
notch in their interior side near their base, a character which dis- 
tinguishes them both from the preceding and following Insects. 
They are our LarrareEs. 
Here the superior wings have three closed cubital cells, the second 
of which receives the two recurrent nervures. 
Pararus, Lat.—Gonius, Jur. 
Where the antennz are very short and gradually enlarge; the eyes 
are closely approximated posteriorly and enclose the ocellis the 
second cubital cell is petiolate(4). 
(1) See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 97. 
(2) Lat., Ibid.; most of the genus Bembex, Fab. 
(3) Lat., Ibid.; most of the Larrz, Fab., such as the L. vespiformis, erytroce- 
phala, cincta, crassicornis, bifasciata, analis, ruficornis, cingulata, rufifrons, bicolor, 
fasciata. 
(4) See Lat, Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 97; and his Consid. génér. sur l’ordre 
des Crust. des Arach. et des Insect. 
