122 MELITTA. (**. c.) 



tlrely black, excepting only the thorax, the three, 

 first dorsal segments of the abdomen, and the 

 scopae, the hirsuties of which is ferruginous. 



angiisiior.Qi^ M. nigra; rufo-subvillosa; thorace pubescenti ; 

 femoribus, pedibusquc quatuor anticis, piccis; 

 posticis ferrugineis. 

 MUS. D. Banks Acul. Kirhj Mas. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 4 — 4^, 

 Ua!\ In Anglii. Mas Barhamiae Icctus. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS nigrum pube rufa. 



Caput hirsutie fuscescenti. j4n tenner picesc. 



Tr UNCUS supra pube fulvescenti obsitus. Squa- 



mulce piceae. Ake subhyalinae, apice obscuri- 



ores ; nervis ferrugineis, costali interiorc nigro. 



Pedes picei, rufescente-pilosi. Tibice tamen et 



Tarsi postici ferruginei. Scopa rufa. 

 Abdomen angustum, sublanceolatum, segmen- 



tis margine pilis rufescentibus ciliatis. J^enter 



fusco-hirtus. 

 Maris Corpus lineare, cincreo-villosulum. Caput 



trunco majus. Fades infra antennas atro- 



hirsuta. j4ntennce vix thorace breviores. 



Pedes postici rufo- picei. ' "uihdomen cineras- 



cente-pilosum. 



I have had no opportunity of comparing what I 

 take to be the male of this Melitta with the other 

 sex which is in Sir Joseph Banks's cabinet ; but the 

 colour of the legs, in which they appear to agree 

 very nearly, has induced me to consider it as such. 



62. M, 



