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cabinet among his Englifh apes ; but Dr. Latham did not recollect 

 where it was taken, or upon what authority he coniiders it as Bri- 

 tifti. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Kirby has inferted the fpecies 

 in his " Monographia Apum Anglia", and, in compliance with 

 this authority, we have ventured to introduce it into the 1 prefent 

 Work ; conceiviiig^that after this explicit avowal of our only motive 

 for enumerating it among the Britifh Infects, we fhall not be deemed 

 entirely refponfihle for the accuracy of our information. Apis 

 iricolor is well-known as a native of the Weft Indies. Mr. 

 Drury's work on Exotic Infects contains the figure of a fpecimen he 

 received from the iiland of Jamaica. It very much refembles the 

 Linnsean apis violacea, but has the body violaceous inftead of black, 

 and the wings blackiih inftead of violet. We fhould obferve, that the 

 wings in our fpecimen of Apis Iricolor does not appear to be fo 

 dark or biackifh in colour as in the individual figured and defcribed 

 by Drury; they are dufky, rather inclining to brown, and flightly 

 glofied with green : the thorax fine blue, and very glabrous ; abdomen 

 inclining more to greenifh, and the fegments edged at the bafe with 

 fine reddifh purple. 



FIG. II. II. 

 APIS BANKSIANA. 



BANKSIAN BEE. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Deep Hack, finning, glabrous; claws rcfous. 



Apis BAM K si AN A : atra, nitida, glabriufcula; digitis runs. Kirby 

 Jp. Jngl. T. 2. p. 279- n. 3, 



Very 



