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Subgenus Megapis Ashmead 
Basal half of abdomen clear ferruginous "aorsata Fabricius. 
Abdomen black, with a band of white tomentum at base of second segment. 
binghami Cockerell. 
Subgenus Apis Linnseus 
Length of worker, 10 to IS millimeters; labrum black mellifera Linnseus. 
Length of worker, 9 to 11 milimeters; labrum and more or less of clypeus 
pale reddish indica Fabricius. 
Subgenus Micrapis Ashmead 
One species; labrum and clypeus dark fiorea Fabricius. 
Apis dorsata Fabricius. 
Apis dorsata Fabricius, Ent. Syst. (1793), 2, 328. 
Listed by Ashmead, 
Apis binghami Cockerell. 
Apis binghami Cockerell, Canad. Entom. (1906), 166 (zonata Smith, 
preoccupied). 
Luzon, Mount Banahao (Baker) ; Bacoor (P. L. Stangl) ; 
reported by Ashmead. 
Apis mellifera Linnseus. 
Apis mellifera LlNN^US, Syst. Nat. (1758), 10, 576 (later called 
mellifica by Linnseus). 
Presumably occurs only as a domesticated insect. 
Apis indica Fabricius. 
Apis indica Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. (1798), 274. 
Luzon, Los Banos. Mindanao, Dapitan (from Baker) . The 
Philippine specimens seen by me have the abdomen banded con- 
spicuously with black, and belong to the race nigrocincta Smith. 
The form unicolor Latreille, with black abdomen, has been re- 
ported by Ashmead from Cagayan and Alcala. Ashmead reports 
nigrocincta from Manila (Stanton ) . 
Apis florea Fabricius. 
Apis fiorea Fabricius, Mant. Ins. (1787), 1, 305. 
Said to occur in the Philippines. I have none from the 
Islands. 
BOMBID^ 
Genus BOMBTJS Latreille 
Body covered with pale hair, some black intermixed on abdomen; wing;s 
hyaline mearnsi Ashmead. 
