;J ^ MELITTA. (**. b.) 



nigrae, dcin flavae, apice ferrugincae. Fades 

 ante antennas tomentoso-argentea. P^ertex 

 cinerascenti-pilosulus. Anttnnce thoracem 

 subsequantes, fuscae, supra basi nigrae. 

 Trunc us. Thorax obscurus, punctulatus, pube 

 parva cinerascenti. Metathorax postice ro- 

 tundatus. Squamid^, itemque Tuherculorum 

 vertex, pallidae. Alee hyalinae, splendide iri- 

 colores, nervis nigricantibus. Pedes luteo- 

 albi, femoribus, tibiarumque litura subannu- 

 larij nigris. 

 Abdomen sublineare, anum versus latius, gla- 

 brum, nitidum, basi nigrum, niein rufum, 

 fasciis duabus abbreviatis, dorsalibus, punctis- 

 que quatuorlateralibus, anoque nigris. Venter 

 rufus ano nigricanti. Obs. Segmenta postica 

 margine obscurd rujescunt. 

 Var. /S antennis totis nigris. 



y maxillis nigris ; tibiis tantiam basi luteis. 



5 maxillis nigris, alarum nervis testaceis ; 



abdomine supra nigro segmentis margine 



late rufis, intermediis basi tomentoso-albis. 



An eadem ? 



It is not without some hesitation that I give this 

 as the Hylceus alhipes of Fabricius; but, as he says 

 of his, " variat interdum segmento secundo tertio- 

 que rufis, macule media nigra," this variety may 

 probably be our insect. The tibiae, in all that I 

 Jiave had an opportunity of examining, have either a 



blackish 



