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PLATE CVIIL 



FIG. I. 



APIS LAPIDARIA. 

 Large Hed-tail Bee. 



hymenoptera. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the Female armed 

 with a fting. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 middle, firft joint longeft. Wings plain. Body hairy. Abdomen 

 connected by a pedicle. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Entirely black except the tail, which is red. 



Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 960. 44. 



Fn, Sv. 1 70 1. 



Geoff. Inf. 2. 417. 



Fabri. Spec. Inf. 1. 477. 17. 



In Plate LXXXVIII. of this work I gave a figure of the Small 

 -Apis Lapidaria, Red-tail Bee, which is well known as a native of 

 this country ; but declined including a figure of the largeft kind, until 

 I could affirm on credible authority it had been taken in England alfo. 



I have lately had the good fortune to be fatisfied in this particular ; 



Lord William Seymour favoured me with the fpecimen from 



- which 



