53 MELITTA. (x». b.) 



segmentis margine lat^ tomentoso-albis, an- 

 ticis interrupt^. Anus et Venter pallido-hirti. 

 Maris Corpus atrum, pube albidi canescens. 

 Fades infra antennas villoso-nivea. Nasi apex 

 fla^TlS. Maxillce basi valde dilatatae {k). Gente 

 subtus concava?. Antennce thoracis longitu- 

 dine,submoniliformes, fulvae, supra basi fuscoe, 

 scapo toto nigro, articulis extimis pellucidis. 

 Tedes flavi, femoribus nigris, anterioribus 

 quatuor antrorsiim fulvo-flavis ; tibiis posticis 

 litura fusca. Abdomen lineare, ano obtuso. 

 Venter anum versus depressus/. concavus. 



The male insect now described, appears evidently 

 to be the HyJccus quadricinctus of FabriciuSj and, 

 I think, also Apis, n. 13. of GeofFroy, named by 

 Fourcroy A. hortensis, although Villars has intro- 

 duced them both into his work as distinct insects. 

 The remarkably dilated maxillae, and concave genae, 

 distinguish this sex of M quadricincla, from the 

 male of tlie following species, which it otherwise 

 much resembles. I have never met with either sex 

 of this insect in this part of England; but it has 

 been taken, the aculeate sex twice by Dr. Latham, 

 and the male once by Mr. Marsham, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of fcondon. I will not take upon me to 

 assert positively, that these are the two sexes of the 

 same individual species ; but as they agree together 

 as much as males and females in this family usually 

 do, I thought it better to consider them as such, 



(A) Tab. 2. **. b. fig. 10. lb. and fig. 11. 



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