Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 500.—Laphria xylocopiformis. (Blue-black.) The specimen from which the figure was drawn was taken titMadras. Its colour is wholly blue-black, just like the female of the species describedon page 520, or A//clopamorio, which is given onPlate X. The resemblancein form will be seen at aglance by comparing thetwo The insect which nowcomes before us is anundescribed species,which I call Laphriaconsimilis, on account ofits remarkable resemb-lance to one of the wood-cutter bees o
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 500.—Laphria xylocopiformis. (Blue-black.) The specimen from which the figure was drawn was taken titMadras. Its colour is wholly blue-black, just like the female of the species describedon page 520, or A//clopamorio, which is given onPlate X. The resemblancein form will be seen at aglance by comparing thetwo The insect which nowcomes before us is anundescribed species,which I call Laphriaconsimilis, on account ofits remarkable resemb-lance to one of the wood-cutter bees of SouthernAfrica. Indeed, so closeis the resemblance, that if a specimen of these Hies were placed <^s\ !•[.,. 501.—Laphria consimilis. New Species.(Black an J grey.) THE HORNET FLIES. 759 among a number of the bees, it would probably pass musterexcept to a very practised eye. It is a native of Natal. The colour of the thorax is black, and so is that of the abdo-men. The latter, however, has a fringe of long grey is a tuft of yellow down on the top of the head, and apatch of the same colour on the tibia of the fore-legs. Thoseof the hind legs have a fringe of long grey hair running alongthe inner edge. The rest of the limb is black. The wings aredeep blackish brown, and with a strong side light a deep glossof blue is seen upon them. Ouk last example of this genus is Laphria horrida of is repre
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