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BRITISH BEES. 
Subsection 2. Without Spues to the posteeioe Tikle. 
XX Permanently social. 
Genus 27. APIS, Linnaeus. 
(Plate XVI. fig. 4 £ $ ° .) 
Apis ** e 1, Kirby. 
Gen. Chat'.: —The neuter. —Body nearly cylindrical 
and subpubescent. PIead transverse, about as wide as 
the thorax ; vertex and face deeply longitudinally chan¬ 
nelled in the centre, the latter to the apex of a small 
triangular elevated space between the insertion of the 
antennae, and extending to the base of the clypeus, the 
sides of the face flat; the ocelli rather large, seated far 
back upon the vertex in a triangle, the anterior one in 
the depth of the longitudinal channel, the two lateral 
ones placed further back towards the occiput in a trans¬ 
verse indentation crossing the longitudinal one; com- 
pound eyes very pubescent; the hexagonal facets very 
minute ; antennae short, filiform, geniculated ; the scape 
nearly half the length of the flagellum and subfusiform, 
the basal joint of the flagellum globose, the second sub- 
clavate and subequal with the remainder, very slightly 
lengthening to the apical joint, 'which is compressed 
and as short as the second; clypeus quadrate, convex; 
labrum transverse, linear, slightly waved in front; man¬ 
dibles broad at the apex, edentate, obliquely truncated 
and concavo-convex; cibarial apparatus shortish; tongue 
nearly twice the length of the labium, linear, pubescent, 
and terminating in a small knob; paraglossae obsolete, 
coadunate with the base of the tongue; labial palpi not 
quite so long as the tongue, the first joint four times as long 
as the remainder, and tapering from the base to the apex 
of the second joint, which is about one-fourth the length 
of the preceding, and has the two very short terminal 
