148 INSECTA. 
FAMILY IV. 
ANTHOPHILA, Lat. 
The fourth and last family of the Aculeata, in the faculty 
of collecting the pollen of flowers(1), usually possessed by the 
two posterior legs, presents a peculiar character which dis- 
tinguishes it from all other families of Insects. The first joint 
of the tarsi of those legs is very large, strongly compressed, 
and forms a square palette or a reversed triangle. 
The maxille and lips are most commonly very long, and 
compose a sort of proboscis. The ligula is most frequently 
shaped like the head of a lance, or resembles a very long 
thread, the extremity of which is downy or hairy. The larve 
feed exclusively on honey and the pollen or fecundating dust 
of flowers. The perfect Insect feeds on the honey of the lat- 
ter only. 
These Hymenoptera embrace the genus 
Apis, Lin. 
Which I will divide into two sections. 
In the first, or that of the AnpRENET#, Lat., the intermediate di- 
vision of the ligula is cordiform or lanceolate, shorter than its sheath, 
and bent underneath in some, and almost straight in others. It is 
composed of the genus Pro-anerties, Reaumur and De Geer, or the 
Awnpren&, Fab., and the Metirss of Kirby(2). 
These Insects live solitarily, and consist of but two kinds of indi- 
viduals, males and females. Their mandibles are simple, or at most 
are terminated by two dentations; the labial palpi resemble the others, 
which always have six joints. The ligula is divided into three pieces, 
(1) The parasitical species are not possessed of this faculty, but the form of 
their legs is essentially the same. They are merely destitute of hairs or brushes. 
(2) Monographia Apum Angliz, a work that has immortalized its author. 
