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eonfidered as the fame fpecies: Liruueus does indeed, notice this 

 diffimilanty of their fize in his defcription, and fays one is three times 

 larger than the other, &c. whence we may conclude that it was after 

 mature deliberation he had ventured to place the fmalleft as a variety 

 of the other*.— I do not know whether the Iargeft has ever been 

 taken in England; the fpecimen of it, in the Linnaean Colleaion, is 

 a Swedifh Infed : the fmalleft (which we have figured) is well known 

 as a native of this country. 



It is not found fo frequently as moft other fpecies of the Apis genus j 

 it lives among heaps of loofe ftones ; its honey is ftrong. 



F I G. 



TENTH RE DO VITELLINE 



Hymenoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Abdomen of equal thicknefs, and clofely united to the thorax. 

 Sting ferrated, between two valves. Second wings fhorteft. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated. Abdomen above black, very hairy, with a 

 lateral line of rufous. Legs yellowifh. Thighs behind dentated. 



T. V. Antennis clavatis, abdomine fupra nigro, lateribus rufis, femo- 

 ribus pofticis dentatis. Syji. Ent. 318. 6. 



T. V. Antennis clavatis, ore elabiato, abdomine rufo dorfo nigro, 

 femoribus pofticis dentatis. 



Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 921. 5. — En. Sv. 1 535. 

 Strcem. Sundm. 171. Tab. 10. Fig. 11. 



# " Varietas triplo minor, vix diftin&a." 



W -> Larva 



