MELITTA. (**. c.) 175 



Truncus supra fulvo-pubescens, thoracis disco 

 pilis sparsis, atris consperso. Squamidce ni- 

 grae. Alee hyalinae, apice nigricantes, nervis 

 piceis. Femora pallido-barbata. Tihice rufo- 

 pilosi. Plantce extra pilis atris hirtas, intus 

 scopulis fulvis. TihicB Plantceque posticas 

 lana densa, longissima, fulva, undique barba- 

 tae(z). Digiti articulo extimo rufo. 

 Abdomen subovale, atro-pubescens, segmento 

 primo villoso-pallido, proximis tribus margine 

 tomentoso-niveis, anticis interrupte. Ani 

 Fimbria densa, nigricans. Venter per fascias 

 nigricante-pubescens. 

 Maris Corpus supra pube densa pallida rufescenti, 

 subtus albescent!, tectum. Anlennce v'vl tho- 

 race breviores, nigrae. Pedes hirti, postici 

 elongati, plantis longius, sed baud dense, vil- 

 losis. Abdomen ex lanceolato-ovatum, per 

 fascias rufescente-hirsutum, segmentis mar- 

 gine albidioribus. 



This elegant insect has been long known, for it 

 was in the collection of the celebrated Swammer- 

 dam, one of the fathers of Entomology, and has 

 been tolerably figured by him. I have therefore 

 decorated it with his name. Panzer has an admi- 

 rable figure of it, under the name of Andrena plu- 

 mipes, but in his description of it he says, " Capui 



{z) Tab. 4, **, c. fig. 14. 



