8a MELITTA. (**. b.) 



Long. Corp. Lin. 2| — 3^. 

 Hal. Earhamia; tempore vernali infloribus Gxyacanthof 

 frefjuchs. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS atmnij pube parv4 cinerascenti sub- 

 incanum. 



Caput. Antennce nigrae, capitis longitudine. 



Truncus obscurus. Thorax punctulatus. Me- 

 tathoraoc postic^ rotundatus. Squamulce ni- 

 grae. AUe subhyalinae, subiricolores ; nervis, 

 costali interiori nigro excepto, testaceis. Pedes 

 cinereo-hirti. Scopulce fulvas. 



Abdomen ovale, punctulatissimum, punctulls 

 levissime impressis, antice nitidum, glabrum, 

 postice tomentoso-incanum, sed non ita dense 

 ut non transluceat nigredo corporis; segmen- 

 tis margine crassiusculis, intermediis duobus 

 basi utrinque tomentoso-niveis. 



Obs. In recentiorihus fiilvescit anus. 

 Maris uintennce thorace breviores. Fades 

 infra antennas tomentoso-nivea. Nasus apice 

 albidus. Tarsi, tibiarumque apex, luteo-albi, 

 digitorum artic;.ilis extimis rufescentibus. j^b- 

 domcn lineare. 



This minute species, although similar to M. leu- 

 cozonia, must not be confounded with it. The 

 apex of its tongue is not acuminate in either sex, a 

 circumstance which strongly marks both the sexes 

 of that insect. The base of two only of the inter- 

 mediate segments of the abdomen are white^ and the 



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