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PLATE CCCLXXXV. 



FIG. I. I. 

 APIS LA PI D ARIA. 



RED-TAILED BEE. 

 IlYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flected : feelers four, unequal, filiform : antenna? fhort, and filiform : 

 those of the female fomewhat clavated : fting of the females and neu- 

 ters pungent, and concealed within the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



iND 



SYNONYMS. 



Body of the female black, hirfute, with red tail : that of the male 

 above black, hirfute, with red tail ; face before the antennae, and thorax 

 at the bafe and apex yellow. 



Apis Lapid aria : hirfuta atra, ano fulvo. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1712. — 

 Gmel. Linn. Syji. Nat. p. 27S2.jp. 44. 



Apis Lapidakia. Fabr. Ent. Syfl. T. 2. p. 320. n. 25. mas. 

 Apis Arbustorum. Fabr. Ent. Syfi. T. 2. p. 320. n. 24. fern. 



Apis LAPi-OARiA corpore femmeo atro, hirfuto, ano rubro : corpore 

 mafculo fupra atro, hirfuto, ano rubro ; fafcie, tho- 

 racifque ball et apice, iiavis. Kirby Apium Angl 

 T. 2. p. L 363. n. 106. 



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