36 MELITTA. (*. a. b.) 



The aculeate sex of this and the preceding species 

 are extremely similar to each other ; but the abdo- 

 men oi M.fodiens is proportionally longer, more 

 conical, and much less convex ; it is also rather 

 retuse at its base. The males, however, are more 

 strikingly distinguished. I am a little dubious as 

 to the synonym I have quoted from Geoffroy, but 

 I think it ought to be referred to this rather than 

 to M. succincta, on account of its nidificating un- 

 der ground. His description will suit either equally 

 well. Concerning the identity of Willughby's ^pi^ 

 sylvestris in terra foramen sibi fodiens, with our 

 insect, I have scarcely any doubt. 



*. b. 

 annnlata.3. M. atra ; fronte maculata ; tibiis posticis albido 

 annulatis. 



j4pis anmdctn nigra ; fronte, annulisque pedum, dlbis. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, & Gmtl. p.277g. n.o3. Fn. 



Suec. 1706. 

 Miill. Zool. Dan. 1909. 

 Fn. Frid. 647. 

 Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n.26. 



Hylceus annulatus. Fah. Ent. Syst. Em. n. 12. 

 Vespamgrz; fronte, flava. 

 Geqlfr. Hist. Ins. Par. 1. p. 3S0. n. 14. i\'Zf. 



FIG. Tab. \5.. fig. 3. 



MUS, D. Smith Linnenn. Marsham, Ilaworth, Trimmer, 

 Sowerly, Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 21 — 3i. 

 Hal. BarharaiiE et alibi, in floribus Rescdarum frequens. 



DESCR. Acul. 

 CORPUS atrum. 



Caput 



