70 MELITTA. (^*. b.) 



5 tertl^ fere parte minora abdomlne angus- 

 tiori, alias $ similis. 

 Maris Corpus ptibe subcinere^. Fades ante an- 

 tennas tomentoso-argentea. Nasus porrectiis, 

 apice luteus. Labium pallidum, jintenna: 

 thorace breviores. Thoracis ])ili siibrufi. Squa- 

 mul(p extrorsum pallida?. ^/<^ subiricolores. 

 Pedes pilosuli ; tibiis quatuor posticis basi et 

 apice, anticis linea longitndinali, tarsisque, 

 luteis ; digitorum articulis extimis rufis. Ab- 

 domen lineare, ventre planiusculo. 

 l^ar. /3 labio nigro ; alarum nervis nigricantibus, 

 tibiis primi et secundi paris tantummodo 

 basi albis ; abdomine segmentis margine 

 immaculatis. 



y labio nigro ; tibiis inmiaculatis, digitis 

 ferrugineis. 



§ minor, corpore atro, albescente-subvilloso, 

 labio nigro. Alias a similis. 

 i tertia Icre parte minor, abdominis seg- 

 mentis intermediis basi albis. 

 Variety y of the aculeate sex of this insect, and 

 Vi'riety S of the male, may be distinct, but the dif- 

 ferences a])peared to mNPnot striking enough to 

 uarraiit my considering them as the sexes of a 

 separate sj)ecies. One of the varieties of the acu- 

 leates, I take to be the ^pis nitida of the Zoologia 

 Danica ; but, since, after Fourcroy , I have given this 

 name to another insect of this genus, I have dis- 

 tinguished this by another. Variety £ of the male, 



is. 



