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PLATE CCCCXXI. 



FIG. I. I. 



APIS SIGNATA. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 inflected : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antennze fliort, and filiform ; 

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

 neuters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



i 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Apis Sign at a: black ; front of the head, and bafe of the thorax 

 yellow. 



SphexSignata: atra, nitida, immaculata; alis albis; fronte fub 



antennis maculis duabus flavis. Panz. Fn. Inf. 



Germ. Unit. n. 53. t. 2. 

 Vespa : nigra, fronte, thoracifque ball flavis. — La gu&pe noire, d 



levre fuperieure & bafe du corcelet jaunes. 



Geoffr. Inf. n. p. 379- n. 14. 

 Vespa Pratensis: Fourcroy. Ent. Par. n. 14. 

 Melitta Signata: atra; fronte maculata; abdomine fegmento 



primo margine utrinque albo. — Var. y antennis 



fubtus piceis, collare tuberculifque luteis. Kirby 



Ap. Ang, T. 2. p. 41. 



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