128 MELITTA. (**. c.) 



rectangulae. jintenncp nigrae, thorace vix 

 breviores. 



Tr UNCUS supra hirsutie, baud densS, ferrugine^ 

 obsitus. Sguamidce nigras. ^/^ hyalinae, apice 

 obscuriores, splendide iricolores ; nervis ferru- 

 gineis, costali interiore nigro. Pedes pallido- 

 hirti. 



Abdomen lanceolatum, pilosum, basi fulvo-vil- 

 losuluin. Venter segmentis margine fimbrii 

 densissima, nivea nitidd ciliatis. 



This, as well as several of the preceding species, 

 is distinguished from the other males of this genus 

 by the right angle in which the head terminates on 

 its lower side behind (/)• It very nearly resembles 

 the male of M. varians, but that insect is without 

 the thick white fringe, by which the margin of the 

 ventral segments of the abdomen of M. angulosa 

 is terminated. 



Jiilva. 68. M. atra; thorace, abdomineque supra, hirsutis, 

 fulvo-aureis. 



Apisfuha hirsuta^ nigra j^horace, abdomineque, fulvis. 



Schrank. Enu/n. Ins. Austr. n. 805. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 2786. n. 133. 



Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n. 120. 



Apis vestita atraj thoracis abdominisque dorso, ferru-* 

 gineo-hirtis. 



Fah. Ent. Syst. Em. n. 65. 



Apis aurea atra ; thorace et abdomine supra, pilis fulvo- 

 aureis, hirsutis. 



Marsham, M.S. 



(i) Tab. 4. **. c. fig. 13. a. 



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