70 PLATE CCCLXXXV. 



L'abeille noire avec les derniers anneaux du ventre fauves. Et, 

 L'abeille noire a couronne du corcelet citron, et extremite du ventre 

 fauve. Geoffr. Hijl. Inf. p. 417. n. 21 # 22. 



This bee, according to fome recent obfervations of the Rev. Mr. 

 Kirby, is to be confidered as the neuter of Apis lapidaria, the fe- 

 male of which was figured in plate 108 of this work, and a variety /3 in 

 plate 88 at fig. 2. 



In fize and appearance it bears the neareft refemblance imaginable 

 to the Fabriciau Apis arbuftorum, which laft Mr. Kirby afcertains to 

 be the male of Apis lapidaria, a fact, that would not eafily have been 

 fufpe&ed, had not opportunities been afforded of attending to its ha- 

 bits and manners in its native haunts. Reaumur fpeaks of thofe 

 bees, with one or two citron coloured bands on the body, being found 

 in the fame nefts with lapidaria. Mr. Kirby has alio feen it enter 

 the nidus of that fpecies, but whaf, as he obferves, appears to remove 

 all doubts of their being the fame fpecies, he iaw the fuppofed male 

 infect in the collection of the late Peter Collinfon, with a memo- 

 randum affixed to it fpecifying that he had feen it connected with Apis 

 lapidaria. 



c F I G. II. 



APIS MUSCORUM. 



YELLOW-BODIED MOSS BEE. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Hirfute, fulvous, abdomen yellow. 



Apis Muscorum : hirfute fulva, abdomine flavo. Linn, Faun. 

 Suec. 1714. — Gmel. Linn. Syji. Nat. p. 2782. n.46. 



Apis 



