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PLATE CCCCLXXXIX. 



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APIS MANICATA. 



MANICATED BEE. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flected : feelers four, unequal, and filiform : antennas fhort and filiform 

 in the male, in the female fubclavated : wings flat : fting of the fe- 

 males and neuters pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Cinereous, abdomen black, with yellow lateral fpots : tail armed 

 with five teeth. 



Apis manic at a : cinerea, abdomine nigro, maculis flavis lateribus, 

 ano quinque dentato. Fabr. Ent. SyjL n. 73. 



Apis manicata : nigra, pedibus anticis hirfutiflimis, abdomine ma- 

 culis lateribus, ano trideutato. Linn, Sj/Ji. Nat. 

 12. n. 2S.— Fn. Suec. 1701. 

 Fourcroy. Ent. Par. n. 3. 

 Geof. Hiji. Inf. Par. 2. 408. n. 3. 

 Kirby. Jp. Angl. V. 2. 243. 47. 



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