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PLATE LXXXVIII 



F I G. I. 



APIS TERRESTRIS. 



Humble Bee. 



Hymenoptera. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the females armed 

 with a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Jaws, with a trunk bent downwards. Antennae elbowed in the 

 middle; firfr. joint longeft. Wings plain. Body hairy. Abdomen 

 connected by a pedicle. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black, very hairy, with a yellow belt on the Thorax, one alfo acrofs 



the Abdomen. Anus white or yellowifh. 



A, T. hirfuta nigra, thoracis cingulo flavo, ano albo. 



Syji. Ent. 379. 5. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 959. 41. 



— Fn. Sv. 2709. 



Bombyltus major niger, linea duplici tranfverfim ducla lutea, alia 



fupra fcapulas, alia per medium abdominis, imo abdomine albo. Raj, 



Inf. 247. 5. 



Mouff. Inf. 53. t. 1. 



GoecL Inf. 2. tab. 4.6, 



Bradl. nat. tab. 26. fig. 1. D, 



Reaum. Inf. 6. tab. 3. fig. 1. 



Fr fcb. Inf. 9. tab. 1Z* fig- !• 



The manners of the common Humble Bee are too well known to 

 require .elucidation i its dwelling is formed very deep in the earth; it 



H comes 



