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PLATE CCCCVIII. 



FIG. I. I. 



APIS CORNIGERA, 



HYMENGPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. , 



Mouth horny: jaw and lip membranaceous at the tip: tongue 

 inflected : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antennas fhort, and filiform ; 

 thofe of the female fomewhat clavated: fting of the females and 

 neuters pungent, aud concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Deep black: lip fomewhat cornuted: firft abdominal fegment 

 with yellow fpots on the back : beneath ferruginous : abdomen 

 variegated with yellow bands. 



Apis Cop.NIGERA: atra, labio fubcornuto ^ abdominis ventre baii 

 ferrugineo, tergo maculis, faciifque flavis va- 

 riegato. Kirby Ap. Angl. T.Q. p. 190. n. 11. 



In the Apum AngRae above quoted it is obferved, that when 



this infect is alive, it emits a very agreeable fcent. We have never 



vol. xii. G taken 



