Q2 MELITTA. (**. c.) 



This insect appears to be the Andrena marginata 

 of Fabricius; when first taken I have sometimes 

 found the whole abdomen red, but this colour in 

 the three last segments assumes a blackish hue. 

 The abdomen of his specimens he describes as 

 ferruginous, in ours the two intermediate seg- 

 ments are of a pale red, and the whole abdomen is 

 covered with down, which, if it be viewed from 

 behind, gives it a reddish hue; the yellow hairs 

 with which the margins of the last segments are 

 fringed, in insects long disclosed will turn paler. 

 Panzer's figure represents our insect with tolerable 

 accuracy, only the thorax is too intensely red. 

 Variety y, I suspect, may be the Noma da Hattor^ 

 Jiana of Fabricius. As Schrank was the first de- 

 scriber of the species in question, under the name 

 of Apis Cetii(q), I have named it after that inge- 

 nious entomologist. 



affinis. 43. M. nigra, cinereo-subvillosa ; thorace rufescen- 

 ti; abdomine subtomentoso, segmentis pos- 

 ticis flavo-ciliatis. 



MUS. Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 4|. 

 Hab. Coddenhamiae, prope Needham Market in Suffol- 

 cia, bis capta. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS nigrum, cinereo-villosum. 



(q) From mount Cetius^ now called Kallenberg, or accord- 

 ing to some Karemberg. 



Caput, 



