132 MELITTA. (**. c.) 



Caput. Vertex calvus. Fades postlce pilis nl- 

 gricantibus. Antennce nigrae. 



Tbuncus supra hirsutie, baud densa, sordide 

 fulva. Squamul(e nigras. Ahe byalinae apice 

 paul6 obscuriores ; nervis ferrugineis, duobus 

 crassioribus nigris. Pedes grisescente-pilosi. 

 Til'i^ posticae scopd versicolori, sub luce pal- 

 lid^, certo situ fiiscescente. ScopulcB ferru- 

 gineae; Flocculus pallidus. 



Abdomen subellipticum, subdepressum, hirsu« 

 turn, hirsutie pro situ nunc fused, nunc ful- 

 vescenti, segmentis margine pallidis. Venter 

 convexus, nitidus, segmentis infra marginem 

 hirtis, marginis cilia brevissim^, densa, pal- 

 ML ^ 



In honbrem D. Praesidis Societatis Linnaeanae, 

 Botanicorum principis, turn et in Entomologid 

 peritissimi, nomen dedi. 



t'anzer, in an early number of his Fauna insec- 

 torum Getmanice initia, had figured the insect here 

 described as the Apis pilipes of Fabricius ; but 

 afterwards he discovered that this was a mistake, 

 and gives the real A. pilipes, but without substi- 

 tuting another name for this. 



tridenta- 71. M. nigra, fulvo-subhirsuta ; labio tridentato ; 

 digitis testaceis. 



MUS. Kirly. 



Long. Corp. Lin, 5. 

 Hal'. Capta semel apud Melton juxtaWoodbridge, Suf- 

 folciae, Augusto exeunti 1/99' 



DESCR. 



