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PLATE CCCCXCII. 



APIS MELLIFICA. 



COMMON BEE. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 flected : feelers unequal, and filiform : antennas ftiort and filiform in 

 the males : in the female fubclavated : wings flat : fting of the females 

 and neuters pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Pubefcent : thorax greyifh : abdomen brown : pofterior lhanks 

 ciliated and traufverfely ftriate within. 



Apis mellifica : pubefcens, thorace fubgrifeo, abdomine fufco, 

 tibiis pofterioribus ciliatis : intus tranfverfe flriatis. 

 Linn. Fn. Suec. 1697. — Fabr. Sp. Inf. 1. p, 

 480. n. 31.—Mant. Inf. 1. p. 302. n. 42. 



Apis domeftica five vulgaris. Ray. Infecl. p. 240. 



Apis gregaria. Geoff. Inf. Par. 2. p. 407. n. 1. 



Reaum. Inf. 5. Tab. 21, 22, 23. 



The 



