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Apis variegata, though an infe& of a fmall fize, is interefting for 

 its rarity and elegance. This pretty fpecies was firft introduced to 

 obfervation, as a Britifb. Infect, by Dr. Fodter, in his " Nova 

 Species Infedorum Centuria prima." Since his time, it feems to 

 have been mentioned only by Mr. Kirby, who, in his work entitled 

 Monographia Apum Anglia, obferves, that he firft faw this bee in 

 the cabinet of Mr. Drury, and afterwards found it, but by no means 

 common, in the autumn of two fucceeding years, 1797 and 1798, 

 flying about funny banks ; it is remarkable, that after the time laft 

 mentioned lie never met with it. 



This infeft is liable to vary a little in colour in different individuals ; 

 and it is further obfervable, that the Engliih. fpecimens arefmaller than 

 thofe found in other parts of Europe, 



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