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fore border ; wintr-rihs tawny ; veins black, tawny at ibe base ; poisers 

 pale tawny. Lengtli of ibe body 5i lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Bolton. United States. 



Genus MERODON, Latreille. 



Merodon gr.ecus, Fem. 



JEneo-vindis, capife J!avo, thnrace fnlvo quadriviltatn, abdomine fulvo 

 eeneo vario, apicr cupreo flam bifasciato, antennis ferrugineis, pedi- 

 bus fulvis, femoribus vlridibus, alls liynpidis. 



Head yellow, clothed with yellow hairs, black and clothed with black 

 hairs on the crown, whence a broad black stripe proceeds to the base of the 

 feelers: eyes black, clothed with very short white hairs : mouth pitchy: 

 feelers ferruginous ; third joint darker; sixth black, ferruginous at the 

 base : chest and breast brassy-green : chest adorned with four tawny stripes, 

 clothed with tawny hairs which are longest and thickest on each side and 

 on the scutcheon : breast tinged with gray, clothed with pale hairs : ahdo- 

 vien obconical, tapering towards the- tip, longer than the chest, tawny and 

 clothed with tawny hairs for half the length from the base, this part 

 is adorned with a coppery half-circle at the base, and with tivo rhomboidal 

 coppery spots in the disk ; hind half coppery, adorned ivith two yellow arched 

 bands, hind borders of its segments clothed with yellow hairs : legs tawny, 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; thighs green with tawny tips ; each hind-shank 

 armed with a very stout tooth, one side of which is serrated ; claws black, 

 tawny towards the base ; tips of the hind-feet dark tawny : ivings colour- 

 lets ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore 

 border ; alulae white, fringed with long yellow hairs ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 5 — (> lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



Albania. 



Merodon bicolor, Fem. 



Niger, thorace trivittato, scutello abdomincque fulvis, hvjus macula basali 

 vittaque nigris apice ferruginco, antennis pcdibusque nigris, yenubus 

 fulvis, ali.f limpidis. 



Black : head covered above with tawny down, hoary and clothed with 

 whitish hairs beneath; epistoma and sides of the peristoma very promi- 



