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sive subjects suggested by the matter in hand, and here 

 a dry didactic style has been purposely avoided, as in 

 the majority of cases they record the personal experi- 

 ences or notions of and hints from an old practical en- 

 tomologist. 



CLASS INSECTA METABOLIA, Leach. 

 Order HYMENOPTERA, Linnaeus. 



DIVISION ACTTLEATA, Leach. 



Antennae in male with 13 joints, in female with 12. Abdomen in male 

 with 7 segments, in female with 6. 



FAMILY MELLICOLLIGEBJE (Honey-collectors), Shuck. 



Subfamily 1. ANDBENIDES (Subnormal Bees), Leach. 

 Syn. Genus MELITTA, Kirby. 



The maxillary palpi always six-jointed. 



Section 1. With lacerate paraglosses. 



Subsection a. LIXGTLE EMARGINAT^: (with emarginate tongues). 

 Syn. OBTTJSILINGTJES, Westw. 



Three submarginal cells to the wings. 



Genus 1. COLLETES, Latrellle. 



(Plate I. fig. 1 $ ? .) 



MELITTA * a, Kirby. 



Gen. Char.: HEAD transverse, flattish ; ocelli in an 

 open triangle on the vertex ; antennae not geniculated, but 

 slightly curved, filiform, short ; joints, excepting the basal 

 or scape, which is as long as five of the rest and slightly 

 curved, nearly equal; face beneath and within the inser- 

 tion of the antennae, slightly protuberant, laterally flat 

 or concave; chjpeus convex, margined anteriorly, entire ; 

 labrum transverse, slightly produced in the centre in 



