MELITTA. (x*. b.) 7Q 



Var. ;3 segmentis intermediis per totam basin 

 tomentoso-pallidis; alarum nervis fcrrugi- 

 neis; plantis quatuor posticis nigricantibus. 

 Maris Corpus pube cinerascenti. ^ntennce tho- 

 race breviores siibtus picese. Nasi apex macula 

 obscura albida notatur. Maxillae baud pro- 

 tensse. Thorax puhe suhrufd. ^/^ iricolores. 

 Abdomen subovale, segmentis tribus interme- 

 diis basi tomentoso-albidis. 

 T^ar. /3 thoracis pube cinerascenti^ plantis posticis 



quatuor albis. 

 This is one of the largest species of this family 

 that we have in England, it may always be distin- 

 guished from all the rest by the colour of the pos- 

 terior legs, which, the thighs excepted, are always 

 red, and covered with reddish hair. I take this to 

 be the insect which Christius has figured as the 

 Apis maxillosa of Linneus, but it is certainly a 

 widely different species. If I am right in my re- 

 ference to him, the thorax of his specimen had lost 

 all its ferruginous hair, an accident v/hich not un- 

 frequently happens to these insects. His Apis 

 emarginata, likewise, very much resembles our 

 insect (p), it may possibly be the male. 



35. M. atra, cinereo-subpubescens ; abdomine sub-ywacfn/zo- 

 incano, segmentis duobus intermediis basi 

 utrinqite albis. 



MUS. D. MarsJiavr, Laiham, M-Lcay, Trimmer, Lathiury, 

 Hau'orth, Sowerby, Kirhy. 



(/;) Tab.15. fi8-.2. P.1S3. Long. 



