EUCERA. 
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b. Cruriferce, (collectors on the shanks and tarsi), 
f With two submarginal cells to the icings. 
Genus 10. EUCERA, Scopoli. 
(Plate VI. fig. 2 <$ $ .) 
Apis ** cl 1, Kirby. 
Gen. Char.: PIead transverse; vertex concave ; ocelli 
in a curve, and very high up; face flattish; clypeus very 
convex, hirsute, and fimbriated ; labrum transverse-ovate, 
and emarginate in front; mandibles very obtusely and 
inconspicuously bidentate ; tongue very long and slender, 
and gradually acuminating, transversely striated; pa- 
raglossae slender, membranous, very acute, and about 
two-thirds the length of the tongue; labial palpi mem¬ 
branous, and about the length of the paraglossae, the 
basal joint linear, broad, longer than the rest united, 
the second about half its length and acuminate, the two 
terminal ones arp very short and equal, and articulate 
within the apex of the second joint; labium less than 
half the length of the tongue, its inosculation concave ; 
maxillae two-thirds the length of the tongue, subhastate; 
maxillary palpi six-jointed, short, less than one-third the 
length of the maxillae, the basal joint robust, the rest 
filiform, and gradually decreasing in length and sub¬ 
stance. Thorax very pubescent, which conceals its 
divisions; metathorax truncated; icings with two sub¬ 
marginal cells, the second receiving both the recurrent 
nervures, one near each of its extremities; legs setose, 
especially the tibiae and plantae, which, in the posterior 
pair is very dense on the exterior of the tibiae, and both 
externally and internally upon the plantae, the following 
joints of the posterior tarsi inserted beneath, and within 
