XIV, 1 Cockerell: Social Bees of the Philippines R1 
Hair of head nearly all black, of thorax above black, but on pleura fulvous; 
abdomen with first two segments yellow-haired, the others with black; 
Wings Tualiginoig scenes sees irisanensis Cockerell. 
Bombus mearnsi Ashmead. 
Bombus mearnsi ASHMEAD, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1905), 28, 959; 
COCKERELL, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1905), VII, 16, 393. 
MINDANAO, Mount Apo, 6,000 feet (HF. A. Mearns). Type 
in United States National Museum. 
Bombus irisanensis Cockerell. 
Bombus irisanensis COCKERELL, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1910), 
VIII, 5, 416, 
Luzon, Benguet, Irisan (collector unknown). Type in Brit- 
ish Museum. Structurally resembles B. swmatrensis Ckll., from 
Sumatra, but the colors are quite different. Bombus is known - 
from Java (B. rufipes Lep.), Sumatra (B. senex Snell., B. rufipes 
melanopoda Ckll., and B. sumatrensis Ckll.), and the Philippines ; 
_ but not yet from Borneo. 
