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Sectio 1. Alse superiores cellula submarginali 2:a nervum recur- 

 rentem ante medium excipiente; inferiores lobo basali nervum trans- 

 versum haud attingente. Labri laniina anlice bifida. Lingua angu- 

 sta haud brevis; palpis labialibus quam maxillaribus fere lcmgioribus ; 

 maxillarum mala apice liaud ciliata. Caput pone oculos haud angu- 

 statum. Metathorax area supefiore öpaca, creberrime subtilissime ru- 

 goso-punctata, fimbria femmas fere nulla. Abdomen nitidum, maris 

 fere eenescens. 



1. A. Hattorphiana: Nigra, parce pallido-pilosa, meso- 

 noto fere glabro, abdornine segmentis 2:o pallide rufo, 

 macula parva laterali ovali nigra, 2 — 4 apice parcius 

 utrinque albo-ciliatis, femorum barba, scopa antice 

 flocculoque albidis: mas abdornine immaculato, ob- 

 longo lanceolato, ciliis minus distinctis, thorace rufo- 

 cinereo-hirsuto. Long. 13 — 15 mill. 



Nyl. Ap. bor. 208. 1. Smith. 1. c. 50. 1. Thoms. Op. 

 142. 1. 



Nomada Hattorphiana Fab. Ent. Syst. II. 349. 14. (2). 



Andrena 4-pundata Fab. Syst. Piez. 324. 11, (c?-). 



Melitta Lathamana Kirby 1. c. 83. 38. 



Melitta licemorrlroidalis Kirby 1. c. 41. 81. 



Var. $. Abdornine segmen to 2:o facia lata vel fere 



toto nigro. 



Species alarum lobo basali breviore, femina thorace 

 subglabro, mas abdornine suba-nescenti- nigro ab omnibus 

 mox discedens. Caput pone oculos haud angustatmn, tem- 

 poribus crassis, sub genis haud compressum ; nigrum gri- 

 seo-albido-pilosum, striga frontali testaceo-albida ; clypeo 

 medio levissime convexo ibique parcius fortius punctato; 

 labro laniina sat magna, antice profunde emarginata; 

 oculis mandibularum basin attingentibus, his dente infero 

 apicali sat dilatato. Antennas flagello subtus obscure fer- 

 rugineo, apicem versus vix incrassatse. Mesonotum fere 

 glabrum, parcius subtilissime punctatum. Metathorax fim 



