xl8 MELITTA. (*/. a.) 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS atrum, albido-pilosulum. 



Caput pube incan^. Maxillce apice femigineae. 

 Fades infra antennas tomentoso-argentea. 

 AntenvcB piceae, thoracis longitudine, articulis 

 arcuatis; certo situ tamen submoniliformes 

 sunt (A). 



Truncus pilis rarioribus subincanus. Thorax 

 nitidus, punctatus. Squamula: piceae. Alee 

 subhyalinae, iricolores; nervis, excepto costali 

 interiori fusco, testaceis. Pedes nigri, pallido 

 subpilosi, tibiis piceis, anticis antrorsum rufo- 

 fulvis; tarsis rufescentibus. 



Abdomen lincare, segmentis duobus interme- 

 diis, primique margine, rufis. 



Var. /3 abdomine segmentis intermediis ferrugi- 

 neis, nebula obscura, pice^. 



This may possibly be the male of the preceding 

 species, but the differences between them are too 

 considerable to take this for granted without fur- 

 ther proof. The antennas of this and other males 

 in this family, seen under a strong magnifier, ap- 

 pear to consist, like those of the male of A. longi- 

 cornisy &c. (/), of minute lenses, and probably of 

 the same hexagonal form. 



pkea. 11- M. atra, glabriuscula; abdomine piceo, nitido, 



segmentis intermediis basi et utrinque ferru- 



gineis. 



(A) Tab. 2. **. a, fig. p. (i) Tab. 10. **. d, 1. fig. 8. 



MUS. 



