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PLATE CCCCXXXVIII. 
APIS QUINQUEGUTTATA.: 
FIVE SPOT BEE. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth horny, jaw and lip membranaceous at the tip 7 tongue ii 
fleCted : feelers four, unequal and filiform: antenne fhort and filiform 
in the males, in female fubclavated: wings flat: fting of the females 
and neuters pungent and concealed in the abdomen. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
APIs QUINQUEGUTTATA. Black: fecond and third joint of the 
abdomen rufous: pofterior ones black with five 
whitifh dots. 
SCOLIA QUINQUE-PUNCTATA. Fubr. Ent. Sy/t. 
Sapyea 5-puncrata. Latreille Inf. 
A fearce and very elegant fpecies of the Melitta family. Our fpe- 
cimen was taken near Faverfham in Kent. 
The fmall figure refting on the leaf No, 1, reprefents the natural 
fize ; the upper figure is magnified. 
cf PLATE 
