MELITTA. (**. c.) 101 



albido-cinereis parciiis villosum. Anus piloso- 

 nigricans. 



Obs. In adultiorihus thoracis puhes sordescit 6 



M. pratensis much resembles the male of M. 

 cineraria, bat the hirsuties of its head is black, its 

 abdomen is of a different form, and has no tinge 

 of violet, and its wings are black at their tips It 

 has been long ago described in the Zoologia Danica. 

 Fabricius gives it^ if I am not mistaken in his in- 

 sect, as the A. carhoiiaria, but that, as appears 

 from the authentic specimen preserved in the Lin- 

 nean cabinet, is very different, and indeed is no 

 Apis, it seems to belong rather to the Fabrician 

 genus Scolia. 



49. M. atra, villosa ; trunco supra hirsuto-rufo. thoradca. 



ACUL. 

 Apis thoradca, atra; thorace rufo; alis apice fuscis. 

 Fal. Ent. Sijst. Em. n. 63, ' 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. eel. GmcL p. 2775. n, //, 

 Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n.75. 



FIG. Schce^ff: Ic. tab. 254. Jig. 6, /. 

 Harris. Exp. tab. 40. fg. \g. 



Andrena bicolor. Christii Hymenopt. p. I'J'J. tab, 14. 

 fig. 5. 



MAS. 

 Andrena bicolor, thorace villoso-fcrrugineoj abdomins 



atro iramaculato. 

 Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. w. 12. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. GmcL Apis, p. 27Q1. n, l/Q. 

 Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. Apis, n. 73. 

 Ross. Fn. Etrusc. n. 8QQ. 



H 2 • FIG. 



