Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . 7 ?J. Fig. 2S3.— Aglae cs-ruled.(Shining blue.) accompanying illustration. Its colour is shining blue, with agloss of green in a side light. The wings nre brown. PLATE WOOD-BURKOWING BEES. 519 On Plate X., Fig. 3, is shown a very handsome Brazilian bee,named Centris denudans. The abdomen of this insect is velvet black, and the thorax iscovered with dense orange hair. The wings are glossed withblue, and the hind legs are clothed with very long black is a British genus named
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . 7 ?J. Fig. 2S3.— Aglae cs-ruled.(Shining blue.) accompanying illustration. Its colour is shining blue, with agloss of green in a side light. The wings nre brown. PLATE WOOD-BURKOWING BEES. 519 On Plate X., Fig. 3, is shown a very handsome Brazilian bee,named Centris denudans. The abdomen of this insect is velvet black, and the thorax iscovered with dense orange hair. The wings are glossed withblue, and the hind legs are clothed with very long black is a British genus named Meleda, which is closely alliedto Centris. The Melecta is a parasite insect, and Mr. F. Smithhas bred numbers of them from the nests of the well-knownAnthophora. Another species of the same genus, Centris Jiavopicta, is
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