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PLATE CCCCXLII. 



APIS LAGOPODA, var, 



THICK LEGGED BEE, 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flected : feelers four, unequal and filiform : antennae fhort and fili- 

 form in the males, in the females fubclavated : wings flat : fting of 

 the females and neuters pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Grey : anterior legs dilated and ciliated : pofterior fhanks clavate : 

 vent emarginate. 



Apis lagopoda: grifea pedibus anticis dilato ciliatis, tibiis pofticis 

 clavatis, ano emarginato. Linn. Si/Jl, Nat. 2. 927° 

 27. — Fn. Suec. 1702. — var. 



Apis lagopoda. Panz. Fn. Suec. 



The Angular dilation of the fhanks of the anterior legs of this infe6l 

 form a very ftriking character of the natural family of bees, to which 



d 2 the 



