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PLATE CCCCLXIV. 
. APIS VESTALIS. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth horny, jaw and lip membranaceous at the tip: tongue ia- 
flected : feelers four, unequal and filiform: antenne fhort and filiform 
‘in the males, in the females fubclavated: wings flat: fting of the fe- 
males and neuters pungent and concealed in the abdomen. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Black, hairy, tail white with black tip: thorax at the bafe yellow. 
Apis VesTaLis: atra, hirfuta, ano albo, apice nigro; thorace bafi 
flavo. Kirby Ap. Angl. v. 2. p. 347. n. 95. 
Geoffr. Hijt. Inf. Par. 2. p. 419. n. 26. 
Apis VESTALIS. ourcroy Ent. Par. n. 26. 
‘The upper figure in the annexed plate reprefents the male, the 
lower the female, of this curious {pecies ; and both are fhewn in their 
natural fize. The female is largeft, and may be furthermore diftin- 
guifhed by having the fulvous band at the anterior part of the thorax 
as well as the white fafcia at the pofterior part of the abdomen broader 
than in the other fex. The white abdominal pand in the female is 
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