COLLETES. 
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sive subjects suggested by the matter in hand, and here 
a dry didactic style has been purposely avoided, as in 
the majority of cases they record the personal experi¬ 
ences or notions of and hints from an old practical en¬ 
tomologist. 
Class INSECTA METABOLIA, Leach . 
Order HYMENOPTERA, Linnceus. 
Division ACULEATA, Leach. 
Antennae in male with 13 joints, in female with 12 . Abdomen in male 
with 7 segments, in female with 6. 
Eamily MELLICOLLIGEILE (Honey-collectors), Shuck. 
Subfamily 1. Andeenides (Subnormal Bees), Leach. 
Syn. Genus Melitta, Kirby. 
The maxillary palpi always six-jointed. 
Section 1. With lacerate paraglossce. 
Subsection a. Lingtle emaeginat^e (with emarginate tongues). 
Syn. Obttjsilingues, TVestw. 
Three submarginal cells to the icings. 
Genus 1. COLLETTS, Latreille. 
(Plate I. fig. 1 S $ •) 
Melitta # a, Kirby. 
Gen. Char.: Head transverse, flattish ; ocelli in an 
open triangle on the vertex ; antennae not geniculated, but 
slightly curved, filiform, short; joints, excepting the basal 
or scape, which is as long as five of the rest and slightly 
curved, nearly equal; face beneath and within the inser¬ 
tion of the antennae, slightly protuberant, laterally flat 
or concave; clypeus convex, margined anteriorly, entire; 
labrum transverse, slightly produced in the centre in 
