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PLATE CXX. 



APIS CENTUNCULARIS, 

 Carpenter Bie, 



hymenoptera. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the females arme4 

 with a fting. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Jaws, with a Trunk deflexed. Antennae elbowed in the middle, 

 firft joint longeft. Wings plain. Body hairy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



AND 



s r n o n r ms. 



Black. Body long, narrow. Head, Thorax, and Legs covered 

 with greyifh hair. Abdomen fmooth, beneath covered with tawny 

 hair. 



Apis Centuncularis, nigra, ventre Iana fulva.— Syji. Ent. 385. 42.-—. 



Linn, Syjl. Nat. 2. 575. 4. edit. 10. 

 Geoff. Inf. 2. 410. 5. 

 Scop. earn. 799. 



Reaum. Inf. 6. tab. 10. fig. 3, 4, 

 Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. 486. 59. 



The wonderful inftincT: that directs the fmalleft Infects to provide 

 for the fafety of their future progeny, never fails to ftrike the attention 

 of the inquifitive refearcher into their oeeonomy.— To perpetuate their 



race 



