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The Hiflory ^ANIMAL S, 
APIS. 
H E weapon in the tail of the Apis is Ample, and capable of infligino- a 
wound. ° ' 
This genus comprehends the bee, the humble-bee, the wafp, and hornet kind. 
Apis thorace nigro> antice rufo immaculato , abdominis in 
cifuris punElo nigro duplici contiguo notatis. 
The Ap with a black thorax^ and double black fpots on 
the fegments of the body . 
This is by much the largeft and the mod mifchievous of this genus; indeed, of all 
the Infe&s of this part of the world : the head is reddiflh, but the upper lip yellow 5 the 
thorax is reddifh in the anterior part, other wife all over black: the fegments or joint' 
of the body are outwardly yellow, inwardly black : there are two black fpots on each 
of the middle fegments, which coalefce at their bafes with the inner blacknefs of the 
fegments themfelves: the legs are greyifh. 
It is too common in the woods and about houfes, in fome parts of England : it’s 
fling is attended with great pain and inflammation, fometimes with danger. There 
is a harmlefs fly, with only two wings, which greatly refembles this Infedt 5 but the 
chara&ers given in this defcription convey the eflential differences, befide thofe in the 
number of the wings, and the want of a fling. All the writers on Infe&s have de- 
fcribed this under the name of Crabro, or Crabro vulgaris. 
Apis nitida thorace viridi-cceruleo , abdomine inaurato. 
The beautiful gold-yellow Apis , with a blue-green ^5^ EttB 
thorax . PtllOu) 2 bCt+ 
This fpecies is of the number of thofe diftindtively called Bees, and is vaftly the 
moft beautiful of the whole genus: it is of the fhape of the common bee, but fmaller: 
the head and thorax are of a very bright and beautiful blue,, with a fmall admixture of 
green in it: the body is of a bright yellow, fo gloffy, that it appears gilded and bur- 
nifhed ; the wings are brown ; the thorax, and the laft fegment but one of the body, 
are dentated behind : the antennas are black, and confift of twelve articulations: it 
flings in the manner of the common bee. 
It is found about old ftone walls that have crevices in them j fometimes about clayey 
ditch banks. 
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Apis nigra abdomine fafciis quatuor undique flavis 
notato . %\ )e blactt anti 
*Tbe black Apis, with four yellow circles on the ytllOM) (HKtlfp. 
This is one of the fpecies properly of the wafp kind; it is fomewhat fmaller than 
the common wafp : the head is black, as is alfo the thorax; the antennse are alfo 
black, and are broader in the middle than elfewhere: there are two yellow fpots on 
the hinder part of the thorax : the firft joint of the body is black, with a yellow fpot 
on each fide ; the four fucceeding joints of it are alfo black, but they have each a yel¬ 
low edge, forming fo many yellow fafcke or belts quite round the body: the laft feg¬ 
ment of the body is entirely black; the legs are black, but variegated with a paler 
colour. 
It is very frequent about the old ftone walls in Northamptonfhire, and fome other 
parts of England; but about London I have not feen it: it flings like the common 
wafp, and the wound is equally painful and inflamed. 
