MELITTA. (**. c.) 147 



posticis scopa pallida, argenteo-nltida. Digiti 

 articulis extimis ferrugineis. ^copw/^nigricant. 

 Abdomen subovatum, lucidum, segmentis tri- 

 bus intermediis lateribus margine albo-ciliatis. 

 Ani Fimbria sordide pallida. P^enter convex us, 

 cinereo-subhirtus. 

 Far, /3 alarum nervis, plantis, scopulisque, rufis ; 

 abdomine segmentis intermediis margine 

 albo-ciliatis, antico interrupte. 

 The hirsuties of the thorax of M. proxima Is 

 nearly of the same colour with that of ^. mellijica, 

 which Linneus has called subgrisea. Its wings 

 have no testaceous hue, and its pale scopas, in cer- 

 tain lights, glitter like silver : circumstances which 

 sufficiently distinguish this insect from those which 

 precede it. Variety /3 seems intermediate between 

 u and M. Wilkella. 



86. M. atra, nitida, albido-subvillosa ; frontis an- Cof/area. 

 gulis, nasoque, albis. 



MUS. Kirly, 



Long. Corp. Lin. Z\. 

 Hah. in Anglia, a D. J. Coyte, entomologo Gippovi- 

 censi, mihi transmiss?, 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS atrum, nitidum, albido-subpubescens. 



Caput. Nasus, atque anguli frontis, carneo- 



albidi, ille punctulis duobus nigris notatus. 



Antennce thorace breviores nigrae. 

 Truncus. Squamul^ p\ce3e. ./^/^p subhyalinae, 



nervis nigris. Pec?e5 hirti, digitis ferrugineis. 

 ^OL. II. L Abdomen 



