hymenoptera. 28/ 



4. Melecta aterrxma. 



Melecta aterrima, -S^. Farg. Hym. ii. 447. 9. 



Hab. France (Island of Noirmoutier). (Coll. F. Smith.) 



5. Melecta nigra. 



Melecta nigi-a, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 446. 6. 

 Brulle, Hist. Nat. Isl. Canar. 89. 39. 



Hab. Italy ; Canary Islands ; Sicily. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



This sjiecies might possibly be considered an extreme variety 

 of pMwc^a^a, but the antennae are longer than in that species; the 

 specimen examined is from Sicily. 



6. Melecta bipunctata. 



Melecta bipimctata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 446. 7- 

 Hab. Italy; Tuscany. 



7. Melecta fasciculata. 



Melecta fasciculata. Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. 1. p. 45. 17. t. 1. f. 15. 

 Brulle, Exped. Sc. Moree, iii. 342. 759. t. 48. f. 11. 



Hab. Italy ; The Morea. 



8. Melecta plurinotata. B.M. 



Melecta phmnotata, Brulle, Expe'd. Sc. Moree, Zool. p. 343. 760. 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii. 442. 2. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii, 211. 146. 



Hab. The Morea ; Bagdad ; Sicily ; Spain ; Algeria. 



9. Melecta funeraria. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Intensely black ; the face, a broad 

 band on the collar, a tuft behind the wings, a large rounded 

 patch on the sides of the basal segment of the abdomen, a large 

 subquatkate one on the second, and a quath-ate one on the third 

 and fourth segments on each side, snow-white ; the legs entirely 

 black, the wings fusco-hyaline. 



Hab. Albania. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



10. Melecta grandis. B.M. 



Melecta grandis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 443. 3. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 211. 147- t. 9. f. 11. 



Hab. Algeria (Oran). 



