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PLATE CCCCXXL 



FIG. I. L 

 APIS SIGNATA. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 infle&ed: feelers four, unequal, filiform: antennae fhort, and filiform; 

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

 neuters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Apis Signata : black ; front of the head, and bafe of the thorax 

 yellow. 



Sphex Signata : atra, nitida, immaculata; alis albis; fronte fub 



antennis maculis duabus flavis. Panz. Fn. Inf. 



Germ. Init. n. 53. t. 2. 

 Vespa : nigra, fronte, thoracifque bafi flavis. — La guepe noire, & 



levre fuperieure 8t bafe du corcelet jaunes. 



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

 Vespa Peatensis: Fourcroij. Ent. Par. n. 14. 

 MelitTA Signata: atra; fronte maculata; abdomine fegmento 



primo margine utrinque albo. — Var. y antennis 



fubtus piceis, collare tuberculide luteis, Kirby^ 



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



L 2 This 



