Apis. HYMENOPTERA. 197 



Genus VIII. Apis, the Bee. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 953. 



The mouth of the Bee is armed with 

 jaws, and furnifhed with a probofcis, in- 

 clofed in a bivalve fheath, and inclined 

 downwards under the body. 



The wings are extended, and without 

 folds in each fex. 



The females and neuters carry a fharp 

 pointed fting concealed in their abdo- 

 men. 



This Genus is divided into two families, 

 the firft containing fuch as have the body 

 fmooth, without any, or with very few hairs; 

 the fecond, compofed of thofe whofe bo- . 

 dies are very hairy, and which emit a found 

 as they fly. 



Scopoli having obferved that the quantity of 

 hair on the bodies of the different fpecies of 

 Bees, encreafes fo gradually, as likewife the 



