MELITTA. (♦♦. c) 100 



apiee olwcunores, nerris flavis, costale interi- 

 ori mgro. Pedes rufescente-pilosi. Femorum 

 barba albida. TitiiP posticus rufas, scopd 

 fiilvo-aurei. Tani quatuor posteriores, at- 

 qne Digiti antici, femigineo-rufi. Palmes 

 ex pilis fiisco-cinereas. ScopuLp fiilvae. 

 ^DOMEN subovatum, nigro-aeneum, convexi- 

 Dscuium, nifescente-hirsutulura, segmentis 

 margine albidionbus. Ani Fimbria fiisca. 

 Fenter pallido-hirtus. 

 Maris Corpus nifescente-villosam. jintemue 

 thoracis loDgitudme, articulis arciiatis. Tihice 

 posticse obscure ferrugineae. lituii fuic^. Ah^ 

 domen densiils polosum. 

 This species connects 3/. titialU with that which 

 I am next to describe ; from the former it borrows 

 the colour of its posterior tibia?; from the latter 

 the mgro-3Eiieoas tinge of its abdomen. 



54. M. nigra, fdlvo-pubescens ; capite anoquew^r*- 

 atris; abdomine subhirsuto, nigrxj-aeneo. 



IfUS. D. Marsham, Smith, Drwy Apis, n. 43. Htacvrtk, 

 Trimmer, SeurerHf Lttthtmry, Kirty. 



LoDg. Corp. Lin. 6 — J. 

 Hoi. Baxbanoiz, ten^xve Tosali freqnens sstii. Mas 

 in Salicum amoitis. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS nigrum, pube densa fiilv^. 



Capitt. Fades atro-hir?uta, Genarum barba 



frilvescit. Fertex calvus. Spatium inter 



Oculos interjectum latum. 



TKr:?crs. 



