45 PLATE CCCLXXVI. 



Geoffroy, in his HiJL des Infecles, mentions this infect as a fuppofed 

 variety of his Abeille noire a ventre brun et liffe. On the contrary, 

 however, we are rather inclined to agree with Mr. Kirby, in believing 

 it to be a diftinft fpecies. Its fize is nearly the fame as the foregoing. 



FIG. IV. 

 APIS PUNCTATA 



DOTTED BEE. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black with cinereous down : abdomen black, fegments with a white 

 dot at each fide. 



Apis punctata: nigra cinereo villofa abdomine atro : fegmentis 

 utrinque pun&o albo. Fabr. Ent. Syjl. T, 2. 336. 

 n. 99. 



Apis punctata. Kirby Ap. Angl. T. I.p. 219. fp. 35. 



Defcribed by Fabricius as a native of this country. The figure re- 

 prefents it in the natural fize. 



FIG. 



