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necessarily becomes the first transmuted, and thus has 
not to wait for the egress of all above it. 
All these insects are usually accompanied by their 
partners in their flight, and their amorous intercourse 
takes place upon the wing. 
Genus 12. SAROPODA, Latreille. 
(Plate VII. fig. 2 c??.) 
Apis ** d, 2, a, Ivirby. 
Gen. Char. : Head transverse, as wide as the thorax, 
very pubescent; ocelli placed in a triangle, the anterior 
one low towards the face; vertex slightly concave; an¬ 
tennae short, filiform, basal joint of flagellum globose, 
the second joint subclavate and the longest, the rest 
short and equal; face flatfish, short: clypeus forming 
an obtuse triangle, slightly convex; labrum quadrate, 
with the angles rounded; mandibles obtusely bidentate; 
cibarial apparatus long; tongue very long and slender, 
but gradually expanding towards half its length and then 
as gradually tapering to the extremity and terminating 
in a small knob, its sides throughout being fimbriated 
with short delicate down; paraglossae one-third its 
length, membranous, very delicate, and tapering to a 
point; labial palpi slender, membranous, the joints con¬ 
terminous, the basal joint more than half the length of 
the tongue, the remainder short, the second the longest 
of these three, and all tapering to the pointed apical 
one; labium scarcely one-third as long as the tongue, 
rather broad, bifid at its inosculation; maxillae nearly as 
long as the tongue, gradually diminishing from its basal 
sinus to a point at its extremity; maxillary palpi four- 
