J 14 MELITTA. (**. c.) 



atriceps. 55. M. nigra, rufescente-villosa; capite atro; tar-* 



sis rufis. 



MUS. D. Marsham, Trimmer, Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 5\ — 6J, 

 Hal. Barhamiae, in Sallcum amentis tempore vernall 

 satis frequens. 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS nigrum, pube dens^ rufescenti. 



Caput. jPac/e^ atro-hirsuta. Occ?^zV« villi sor- 



descunt. Antennce thoracis fere longitudine, 



nigraSj articulis subarcuatis. 



giores, articulo primo raagno, brevi {i), rannos duos emit- 

 tente; Interiori breviori, latiori, exarticulato (A) 3 exteriori 

 longiori, tenuiori, triarticulato(Z). Oculi magni, promi- 

 nuli, conspicue reticulati, pedunculo brevi, crasso insi- 

 dentes {m). Vertex planiusculus. 



Truncus. Elytra parva, sublinearia, thoracis lateribus 

 affixa(n). Alee magnx, corpore longiores, plicatos, lac- 

 teae, cost^, lineolaque submarginali, nigricantibus (0) ScU' 

 tellum porrectum, elongatum, calceiforme, abdomen ob- 

 tegens {p) ; processu corneo utrinque munitum {q). Pedes 

 compres-i, picei. 



Abdomen sub scutelli tegmine delitescens (r), carnosura,ano 

 truncate, subemarginato (*) . 



Obs. Lnrvce corpus sulcylindricum, molle, allidum ; in aldo- 

 mine Melittae insertum ; capite cxerto, corneo, cordato, pla- 

 niusculo, suhrufo, postice nigro, subtus postice concavo (/). 



(») Tab. 14. n.n.fig. I. A. fig. 3,4. tf. (A) Ibid fig.a. 4. *. fi*. 4. />. 

 (/) Jbid. fig.a. </. ng.4.':. («) Ibid. fig. 1.//. {n)\b\<i.gg, 



(0) Ibid. //. (/•) Ibid. h. and fig. 6. b. (y) Ibid. fig. 1 !. . 



and fig. 6. d. (r) IbLd. fig. i . k. (1) Ibid. fig. 6. c. (f) Ibid. 



6g.7, 8, 9. a. 



Truncus 



