Apis is an obsolete constellation designation near the South Celestial Pole. It was created by Petrus Plancius in the late 1500's to provide nourishment for the nearby Chamaeleon. It still remains in the southern sky, but under a different name. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille renamed it Musca Australis (the Southern Fly) in 1752, and after the northern fly fell into disuse, the constellation became simply Musca.