TROCHILIUM. 335 



MELITTIA Walker. 



Body rather stout. Proboscis elongated. Palpi moderately 

 long, slightly pilose ; third joint lanceolate, hardly half the length 

 of the second. Antennae subclavate or clavate, rather longer than 

 the thorax. Abdomen oblanceolate, much longer than the thorax. 

 Legs stout ; hind legs most densely pilose, with long hairs, which 

 extend nearly to the tips of the tarsi. Wings hyaline, rather nar- 

 row. Pore wings occasionally opaque ; fourth inferior vein not 

 very remote from the third, which is near to the first and to the 

 second. 



North America. 



1. M. ceto Walker. C. B. M. VIII. 66. 



Aurato-viridis ; caput antice et apud oculos album; palpi lutei, 



basi albi ; abdomen rufum maculis dorsalibus nigris, subtus lu- 



teum; pedes rufi, nigro albo que varii; alae anticae aurato-virides ; 



posticae limpidae. 



United States. 



Walkek. 



VarJ Olivacea; palpi pallide flavi, fasiculo subapicali nigro; 

 antennas viridi-nigrae; abdomen ochraceum, fascia basali maculis 

 que dorsalibus nigris ; pedes postici pilis extus ochraceis intus 

 nigris dense herti ; alas anticae olivaceo-fuscae opacae, posticae lim- 

 pidae fusco marginatae. 



Massachusetts. 



Walker. 



2. M? flavitibia Walker. C. B. M. VIII. Trochilium tibial e Harris. Am. 

 Jonrn. Sci. XXXVI. 



Pusesceus ; caput apud oculos flavum ; antennae nigrae ; thorax 

 flavo bivittatus; abdominis segmenta fiavo marginata; tibiae flavae, 

 posticae pilis flavis dense vestitas ; alae limpidae, anticae marginibus 

 fascia que abbreviata pallide fuscis. 



New Hampshire. 



Walker. 



