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PLATE CCCXCDL 

 FIG. I. I. 



APIS DRURIELLA. 



DRURY'S BEE. 



HYMENOPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARCTER. 



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

 inflected : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antenna? fhort, and filiform ; 

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

 neuters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS* 



Black with cinereous down : antennae fulvous beneath : laft joints 

 of the abdomen mucronated on each fide. 



Apis Druriella : nigra, hirfuto cinerafcens ; antennis fubtus 

 fulvis ; abdomine fegmentis pofticis utrinque 

 mucronatis. Kirby. Ap. Angl. v. 2. p. 285. 

 ?*. 62. 



YOl. XII. 



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