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PLATE CCCCLXIV. 



APIS VESTALIS. 



HYMENOPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flected : feelers four, unequal and filiform : antennae iliort and filiform 

 in the males, in the females fubclavated : wings flat : fling of the fe- 

 males and neuters pungent and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



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SYNONYMS. 

 Black, hairy, tail white with black tip : thorax at the bafe yellow. 



Apis Vestalis : atra, hirfuta, ano albo, apice nigro; thorace ball 

 flavo. Kir by Jp. Angl. v. 2. p. 347. n. 95. 

 Geqfr. Hiji. Inf. Par. <2.p. 419- n. 26. 



Apis vesta'lis. Fourcroy Ent. Par. n. 26. 



The upper figure in the annexed plate reprefents the male, the 

 lower the female, of this curious fpecies ; and both are (hewn in then 

 natural fize. The female is largeft, and may be furthermore diftin- 

 guifhed by having the fulvous band at the anterior part of the thorax 

 as well as the white fafcia at the pofterior part of the abdomen broader 

 than in the other fex. The white abdominal band in the female is 



K fomewhat 



vol. xin. 



