46 PLATE CCCCX. 



figured in the annexed plate. It appears, the fpccies has not been, 

 obferved in any other collection. 



This infecl is of a moderate fize, as the line defcribing its length 

 at fig. 1, in the lower part of the plate is intended to fliew. The 

 prevailing colour is black, but affumes a greyifh afpecl; from the pale 

 downy hairs with which it is partially covered : the thorax is more 

 villous than the body, and this villofity partakes in a flight degree of a 

 fulvous tint ; a few hairs of the fame colour is alfo obferveable about 

 the head ; the antennae are blackifh ; wings hyaline with the norves, 

 pale teftaceous. 



FIG. II. 

 APIS DISJUNCTA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : pofterior part of the thorax, and anterior part of the ab- 

 domen yellow downy : wings fufcous. 



Apis Djsjuncta : nigra thorace poftice abdominifque antice to- 

 mentofo flavis, alisfufcis, Fabr. Ent. SyJI. T. 2, 

 328. n. 61. 



Anthrophqra Disjunct^. Fabr. Syjl. Pkz. 374. n. 10= 



Among the Britifh Apes in the cabinet of Mr. Drury (No. 38)^ 

 we poffefs a fpecimen of this remarkable infect, and which we think 



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