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 PLATE CCCCXXXVIIL 



APIS QUINQUEGUTTATA. 



FIVE SPOT BEE. 

 - HYMENOPTERA, 



" - GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, jaw and lip membranaceous at the tip : tongue in- 

 Hefted : feelers four, unequal and filiform : antenna? 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 qui^queguttata. Black: fecond and third joint of the 

 abdomen rufous : pofteriof ones black with five 

 whitilh dots. 



Scolia ouInque-punctata. Fabr. Ent. Syjl. 



Sapyga 5-punctAta. Latrrille Inf. 



A fcarce 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 

 fee j the upper figure is magnified. 



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