44 PLATE CCCLXXVI. 



The head and thorax are black: body of the fame colour, glofly, 

 and fpotted with white : legs yellow : thighs black. The only fpeci- 

 men we have yet met with of this kind, was taken in Kent. The 

 fmalleft figure denotes the natural fize. 



FIG. II. 

 APIS SPHECOIDES. 



SPHEX-FORMED BEE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flefted : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antennae fliort, and filiform, 

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

 ters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



.AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Apis Sphecoides. Deep black: abdomen ferruginous ; bafe, and 

 tip black : wings blackifh. 



Melitta Sphecoides. Aterrima ; abdomine ferrugineo, bafi 

 apieeque nigro ; alis nigricantibus. Kirby Ap. 

 Angl. T. 2. p. 46.jp. 9. 



Sphex gibba : nigra; abdomine ferrugineo apice fufco: alisprimo- 

 ribus apice nigricantibus. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1658. — 

 Gmel. Linn. Si/ji. Nat. T. I. p. 5. p. 2732. 



Sphex gibba : nigra abdomine ferrugineo apice fufco, alis anticis 

 apice fufcis. Linn.—Fabr. Ent. Syjl. T. 2. p. 212. 

 n. 5Q. 



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