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square, the false proboscis nearly os long as the 
body, and the labial pulpi terminating in a point 
formed by the two last joints.* All the species are 
exotic, and apparently confined to South America. 
Several of them are nearly glabrous, (such as E. 
dentata, and cordala,) in this respect deviating mate- 
rially from the external aspect usually associated 
with the peculiar structure which they exhibit. 
EUGLOSSA SUR1NAMENSIS. 
Plate XIX. Fig 1. 
Apis Surinamensis, Linn. — Abeille a ventre jaune, De Geer , 
tom. iii, Pi. 28, fig. 9 Centris Surin. Fab. Drury's Exot. 
Ins. Pi. 43, fig. 4. — Englossa Surin. Lair. Gen. Crust, et 
insect. Zool. Uumb. et Bomp. PI. 17, fig. 12. 
This species has been long known, as the above 
synonyms indicate. It is rather a small insect, the 
accompanying figure representing it a little enlarged. 
The body is black, and clothed with a short very 
dense hirsuties ; head and antenr.se black, the tongue 
extending backwards as far as the middle of the 
abdomen ; eyes brown ; thorax black ; the wings 
tinged with clear brown ; nervures black ; abdomen 
with the basal segment black, the remainder ochre- 
yellow, appearing as if gilded ; the black colour on 
the underside of the abdomen extends to the middle ; 
legs black, the tibise and radical joint of the tarsus 
in the hinder pair broad and flat. 
Inhabits Surinam, Xalapa in New Spain, and 
other parts of South America. 
* Cuvier, Regne Anim. v. 357. 
