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PLATE CCCCX. 



FIG. L 

 APIS PIC1PES. 



HYMENOPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

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

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

 neuters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Apis Picipes. Black, covered with pale down: thorax tinged 

 with fulvous : abdomen fufcous : legs rufous, pitchy. 



]Melitta Picipes: nigra, pallido-villofa ; thorace fulvefcenti; 

 abdomine fufco ; pedibus rufo-piceis. Kirby. Ap* 

 Angl. T.n. p. 127- n. 66. 



Defcribed by Mr. Kirby as a new fpecie* of his "genus Melitta 

 from the individual fpecimen (Apis, n. 65, of Mr. Drury's cabinet), 



figured 



