PLATE CVIII.

9 S

which the annexed figure is copied; his Lordship told me he metwith it in Wiltshire last summer, with several other rare Insects*which will appear shortly in this work.

FIG. II.

APIS ACERVORUM.

Black Bee.

Hymenoptera.

Apis.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Entirely Black. Hairy.

Apis Acervorum hirsuta atra. Linn. SyJ}. Nat. 2. 261. 5 °'

Fn. Sv. 1717.

Schcsff. Icon. tab. 78. jig. 5 *

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-urculio

*“ e ramby:^agium^ e ptura £

This species lives in the earth, it is not often met with near t olidon. We received it through the fame channel as the former.

^antharis

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