MELITTA. (**. c.) X4I 



face is grlsescent, and its abdomen is shorter and 

 more ovate. 



SO. M. nigra, cinereo-villosa ; abdomine owaW ^pulescens, 

 labio subcomuto. 



Apis puhescens corpore cinereo-pubescente, immaculato. 



Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. n. QS. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 2773. n. 6q. 



Fill. Ent. Eur. 3. n.6l. 



MUS. Kirby. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 3, 



Hab. In SulFolcia, semel tantummodo lecta. 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS nigrum, cinereo-villosum. 



Caput trunco majus. Antenna: thorace brevi- 



ores, subtus picece. Lahii tuberculum eleva- 



tiusculum. 

 Truncus. Squamulce nigrae. Alee hyalinae, 



apice paulo obscuriores, nervis nigricantibus. 



Pedes cinereo-hirti. 

 Abdomen ovale, cinereo-hirsutulum, segmentis 



margine albidioribus. Venter convexus, hir- 



tus, segmentis cilia brevi, albida marginatis. 



This little Melitta agrees so well with Fabricius's 

 description of his Apis puhescens, that I have no 

 doubt of its being that insect. It is extremely 

 rare, and much smaller than any of the preceding 

 jnales. 



31. M. atra, cinereo-subpubescens; abdomineseg-/i«?nor- 



..... . n . rhoidalis. 



mentis posticis utnnque margme albis; ano 



ferrugineo. 



Andrena 



