I 41 3 



PLATE CCCCVIII. 



FIG. I. I. 



APIS CORNIGERA. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC ClIA RASTER. 



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

 inile6ted : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antennae fhort, and filiform ; 

 thofc of the female ibmewhat clavated: fling of the females and 

 neuters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen, 



SPEC JFTC CIIA RACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Deep black: lip fomewhat cornuted: fir ft abdominal fegment 

 with yellow fpots on the back: beneath ferruginous: abdomen 

 Variegated with yellow bands. 



Apis Cornigera: atra, labio fubcornuto ; abdominis ventre baft 

 ferrugineo, tergo maculis, faciifque flavis va- 

 riegate. KirbyJp. And. T.2. p. 190. n. 11, 



In the Apum Angliee above quoted it is obferved, that when 

 this iniea is alive, it emits a very agreeable fcent. We have never 



G taken 



vol. xii. 



