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JirethjJiina 
Amahhea, 
Mujfitans, 
* napes. 
Plumipes, 
Armata, 
* Cunku- 
laria, 
*Melafca, 
INSECTS. HYMENOPTERA. 94. Apis. 
Nearly naked ; black .* wings violet. 
Inhabits East India and Itafy-, fmall. 
Nearly naked, black : wings blue tipt with brovrn ; 
legs long and larger than the abdomen. 
Inhabits Cayenne ; very fmall. 
Blue-black hairy : abdomen fulvous with a coppery 
the fit ft fegment black. 
Inhabits Cayenne. . 
/Wbluc: antenna black: thorax h\\ie with thick fliort : 
nxings fubferruginous. the tip whitilh. 
Grey ; middle legs W'ith tufted hairs. 
Inhabits England, Fall. Spic. Zotl. 9. tab. i.fg. 14 - 
* hi^^^ 
Thorax fulvous : abdomen black with a fulvous tip. 
(hanks compreffed dilated liaiiy black. 
Inhabits India. In the mufenra aiSirJof Banks. 
Antennae black : lip yellow : front black with a yellow 
of the abdomen fpotted with white : fore legs white vui 
others black. 
Black; abdomen braffy-green : hind-fhanks very hairy- 
rax 2-fpined each fide. 
Inhabits ; large. 
Head black with 4 yellow dots on the lip. 
. tW 
abdomen brow’H : 
14 - 
Pubefeent; thorax ferruginous 
covered with thick hair. 
Inhabits Europe, in gravelly banks. 
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Pubefeent; thorax greyifh: abdomen brown, hind -1 
ciliate and tranfverfely ftriate within. Common 
Male. Rcaum. Inf 5. tab. 2t, 23. tab. zz. fig, 2. 
Female. Reaum. Inf. 5. tab. zz. fig. 3. 
Neuter. Inf. J. tab. zz. fig. 1. _ 1 - -es- 
Inhabits Europe, in hmlow trees but is chiefly kept in h>' 
This well known and bufy infed lives among large focietic^ ot 
pofed of males or drones, females or queens, 
working bees. The Drone has no ftingj nor arc ^ 
nrobofcis adapted for colleding honey or wax, but \vir®’ 
iifc of idicnefs and gluttony. The ««rr»_has very faof ^,1 tli' 
and is larger than the others; after having deftroyc |]) 
reft of the females which arc in the. larva or 
remains under the care and protedion of the W 
who feed her and follow her wherever (he goes. ^ r 
from 3 to 4000 eggs in the fpace of about 2 months 
