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Apis variegata, though an infe6l of a fmall fize, is interelling for 

 its rarity and elegance. This pretty fpeeies was firft introduced to 

 obfervation, as a Britifh Infect, by Dr. Focfter, in his <e Nova: 

 Species Infeclorum Centuria prima" Since his time, it feems to 

 have been mentioned only by Mr. Kirby, who, in his work entitled 

 Monographia Apum Angiitis, obferves, that he firft faw this bee in 

 the cabinet of Mr. Drury, and afterwards found it, but by no means 

 common, in the autumn of two fucceeding years, 1797 and 1798, 

 flying about funny banks ; it is remarkable, that after the time laft 

 mentioned he never met with it. 



This infect is liable to vary a little in colour in different individuals ; 

 and it is further obfervable, that the Englifh fpecimens are fmaller than 

 thofe found in other parts of Europe. „ 



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