f34 FAMILL/E. {Melitta. *. b.) 



*. b. (.r) 



H. F. A. Corpus sublineare, glaberrimum ; 

 Capite trunci latitudine, subtriangulari ; Prohoscide 

 brevi, crassiuscuM, glabrd ; Lingua brevissim^a 

 triincat^j iitrinque auriculat^ ; Tuho conico, apice 

 tridentatOj dente intermedio majori ; Valvulis 

 apice lanceolatOj acuto ; Annulo subrotimdo ; 

 Facie maculata ; Stemmatihus in triangulo ; Oculis 

 distantibus ; Naso distincto, planiusculo, apice 

 truncato ; Lahio antice obtusangulo ; Maxillis 

 apice bidentatis ; Antennis pedicello, apicisque ar- 

 ticulo prirno, subconicis ; Tninco ex ovali-oblongo ; 

 jilis anastomosi magnd ; Ahdomine subconico, de- 

 clivi, basi subretiiso, supra gibbo. 



Maris Corpus paulo angustius, Fades infra 

 antennas albida aut lutea. 



Historia et oeconomia adhuc latent. Imago 

 vix pollinilega, odore Melissa f. potius Dracoce-. 

 phali Moldavici gratissima. 



The present, as well as the preceding family, 

 departs a little from the genuine character of Me- 

 litta, and it is not without some hesitation that I 

 have retained them in that genus, the tongue in 

 all the other families being acute. Hereafter, 

 perhaps, when the class Hymenoptera comes to be 

 more attentively studied and better understood, it 

 may be found necessary to separate these two 

 families from Melitta : in the mean time, as they 

 (,?•) Tab. I. *. b. I^ijlceuSj Fab. and Latr. 



appear? 



