MELITTA. (**. c.) 113 



it was well that I did, for upon leaving home for 

 some weeks, when I returned, it was so miserably- 

 mauled by the great enemy of the entomologist, the 

 Acarus destructor (h)^ that I should have been un- 

 able to give a tolerable idea of it, since both elytra 

 and antennae were gone: enough of it, however, 

 still remains to shew what it was. I have not as 

 yet met with another. 



I shall attempt a description of it below (c) 



55. M. 



{I) Schrank, Enum. Ins. Austr. n. 1057. tab. 2. fig. H. 



{t) STYLOPS(a). Character Essentialis. 



Antennce bipartitae. Oculi pedunculati. 



Character Artifidalis. 

 Antennce bipartitae {I). 

 Oculi pedunculati (c). 

 Elytra laleribus thoracis affixa(ci). 

 Scutellum porrectura, abdomen obtegens (ef), 



i . St. aterrima j alls corpora majoribus ,• pedibus fuscis. Melittee^ 



MUS. Kir hi/. 



Long. Corp. Lin. l|. 

 Hab. Barhamiae, larva in Mdittarum abdomine para- 

 sitica. 



DESCR. CORPUS aterrimum, obscumm. 



Caput antice obsolete trilobura(/). Pa/pi quatuor, exte- 

 riores biarticulati, articulo primo subclavato, secundo lan- 

 ceolate, acuto {g) y interiores breviores, exarticulati, tenues, 

 apicem versus paulo crassiores {h). Anten?ice capita lon- 



giores^ 



(a) Them. rv\oi;, columna ; and titl', oculus. 



(b) Tab. 14. n. u. fig. i- </, c. and 3, 4. (c) Ibid. fig. 1./,/. 

 id)lhl<i.gg. (0 Ibid. Z.. and fig. 6. i. (/) Ibid. fig.!. tf« 

 Cs) Ibid. fig. a. 5. a. {h)lhld.ih. 



