MELITTA. (*4t. c;) 131 



In honorem D.Bracy Clark, Oestrorum monogra^ 

 phi accuratissimi, nomenAedi. 



Mr. Bracy Clark, author of a most ingenious 

 paper upon the genus Oestrus in the third volume 

 of the Transactions of the Linnean Society (k)^ 

 «ent me this Melitta, for the Apis hicolor of Fa- 

 bricius. But that, as we have seen above, is only 

 the male of M. thoracica ; from this M. Clarkella 

 is sufficiently distinguished by the hairihess of its 

 abdomen, and the colour of its posterior legs. 

 Christius has given us the figure of an Apis, which 

 he names A. icterica, in colour much resembling 

 our insect ; but it is much smaller, and of a dif- 

 . ferent form, I have therefore considerable doubts 

 about its identitj^. 



70. M. nigra, grisescente-subhirsuta ; thorace ah^ Smithella 

 domineque hirsutis, fulvescentibus, segmentis 

 margine albidioribus. 



FIG. Apis'pilipes, Panzer. Fn. Ins. Germ. Tnit. n. 7. tal. 13, 



MUS. D. Smith, Marsham, Trimmer, Frandllon, Kirly, 

 Long. Corp. Lin, 5^. 

 Hah. Barhamiae, in Salicum amends masculis frequens 

 anno 1799. 



DESCR. Acul 



CORPUS nigrum, pube grisescenti, 



{h) I would be understood to say this with the exception of 

 his note containing the account of Oestrus Cuniculi : the opi- 

 nion advanced in which, as mihtating against a superintending 

 Providence, I think highly objectionable, 



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