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PLATE CXX.

APIS CENTUNCULARIS.Carpenter Bee.

HYMENOPTERA .

Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the females armedwith a sting.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Jaws, with a Trunk deflexed. Antennae elbowed in the middle,first joint longest. Wings plain. Body hairy.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER,

AND

STNONTMS.

Black. Body long, narrow. Head, Thorax , and Legs coveredtvith greyish hair. Abdomen smooth, beneath covered with tawnyhair.

Apis Centuncularis, nigra, ventre lana fulva.— Syfi. Ent. 385. 42.—>

Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 575. 4. edit. 10.Geoff. Inf. 2. 410. 5.

Scop. earn. 799.

Reaum. Inf 6. tab. 10. fig. 3, 4.

Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. 486. 59.

The wonderful instinct that directs the smallest Insects to provide^ 0r the safety of their future progeny, never fails to strike the attentionthe inquisitive researcher into their oeconomy.—To perpetuate their

race