26 MELITTA. (♦. s.) 



fiynonym of this author for our insect, which I havd' 

 likewise excluded, as to me it appears intended for 

 the species that I shall next describe. That this 

 species is Reaumur's Abeille " qui fait son nid de 

 membranes soyeuses," appears evidently from a spe- 

 cimen of that insect which was sent by M. La- 

 treille, the ingenious author of the work upon the 

 Genera Insectorum noticed above Z'), for my in- 

 spection, under the name of liylccus glutinosiis. 

 This specimen was rather snraller than ours, but 

 there was no material difference between them. 



Panzer's Andrena sicccincia (c) is very different 

 from the true one ; it appertains to another family 

 of this genus, and seems very nearly related to 

 Melitta Swammerdamella. 



Linneus mentions the present species as very 

 rare in Sweden ; the aculeate sex has often been 

 taken in the neighbourhood of London, but of 

 the male I have seen only a single specimen, which 

 is in the cabinet of Dr. Latham, 



fodlevs. 2. M. nigra, albido-villosa; thorace fulvescenti; 

 abdomine conico, basi subretuso; segmentis 

 margine pallidis. 



j4p'is syh'cstris in terri foramen sibi fodiens, an tertia 



Purchasii ? 

 milugh. in Rai. Hist. Ins. p. 244. 

 Apis nigra; thorace hirsute fulvo; abdomine glabra 



incisuris albis. 

 Ceqff'r. Hist. Ins. Par. torn. 2. /). 41 1. 72. 7 ? 



il) Vol. 1. p. 80. (0 Fn. Ins. Germ. Init. n. 7- tab. 10. 



yipis 



