I3O ASITMEAD [ I2 4] 



I cannot agree with Herr Hancllirsch, of the Hofmuseum, Vienna. 

 Austria, who has reduced this species to a variety of B. tcrricola 

 Kirby, with which it is not even closely allied. 



BOMBUS CALIFORNICUS Smith. 



Bombus cahfornicus SMITH, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., n, p. 400, $cf, 1854. 

 CRESSON, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., n, p. 97, <? $, 1863. CRESSON, Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc., vn, p. 230, 1879. CRESSON, Syn. Hym. North America, 

 p. 307, 1887. HANDLIRSCH, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, in, p. 243, 1888. 

 UALLA TORRE, Cat. Hym., x, p. 513, 1896. 



Bombus vosncscnski RADOSZKOWSKI, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xxxv, p. 589, 

 T. 6, f. 2, 1863. 



Bombus fiavifrons SMITH, Lord's Naturalist in Vane. Isl., n, p. 34, 1866. 



Bombus cohtmbicus DALLA TORRE, Cat. Hym. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., ix, p. 139, 

 1890. 



Type in British Museum. From Sitka (teste Handlirsch) . 



BOMBUS NEVADENSIS Cresson. 



Bombus pennsylvanicus CRESSON, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., n, p. 94, $ (nee De 



Geer), 1863. 

 Bombus nevadensis CRESSON, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., v, p. 102, 9<j\ 1874. . 



CRESSON, Rep. Geogr. Geol. Surv. looth merid., v, p. 728, PI. 34, f. 



5, 1875. CRESSON, Syn. Hym. North Am., p. 308, 1887. HANDLIRSCH, 



Ann. Hofmus. Wien, in, p. 245, T. 10, f. 3, n, 1888. DALLA TORRE, 



Cat. Hym., x, p. 538, 1896. 



Type in collection of the American Entomological Society. From 

 Alaska (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey), Nevada, Utah, Colorado. 



BOMBUS PROXIMUS Cresson. 



Bombus proximus CRESSON, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., u, p. 98, , 1863. 

 Bombus howardii var. proximus CRESSON, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vn, p. 231, 



1879. CRESSON, Syn. Hym. North Am., p. 308, 1887. 

 Bombus tcrricola var. proximus HANDLIRSCH, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, ill, p. 



234, 1888. DALLA TORRE, Cat. Hym., x, p, 559, 1896. 



Type in collection of the American Entomological Society. From 

 Alaska (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). 



BOMBUS NEGLECTULUS sp. nov. 



Female. Length 17 mm. Black and clothed with a black pubes- 

 cence, except as follows : The anterior portion of the thorax above, 

 and a small spot just in front of the tegulse are clothed with a pale 

 yellowish pubescence ; the scutellum has two tufts of yellowish pubes- 

 cence but mixed with black hairs on their inner margins, while the 

 third dorsal abdominal segment at apex and laterally, and the fourth 

 entirely arc clothed with a fulvo-rufous pubescence. 



