ZOOLOGY. 



ON THE HYMENOPTERA. (BUT OHIEPLY THE GENUS BOMBUS) 



OF THE PROVINCE OP MORAY. 



By Rev. G. Gordon, LL.D. 



T N a report of a recent meeting of the East of Scotland Naturalists 

 * at Perth, it was hinted that the attention of some of the mem- 

 bers was to be given to the local Hymenoptera. To such members 

 the following notes may be of interest. They were drawn up years 

 ago, in contemplation of continuing the papers on the Provincial 

 Fauna: the last of which was given in The Zoologist on p. 3781, 

 (February, 1853.) 



The List, now submitted, follows the nomenclature adopted by 

 the late Frederick Smith, Esq., of the British Museum, in his " Cata- 

 logue of British Hymenoptera in the British Museum, London, 1855." 

 The List has also far higher value from the circumstance that a 

 specimen of every insect contained in it was seen and named by Mr. 

 Smith. {Note. w. denotes worker, $ female, and $ male.) 

 Bomhus muscorum, w. 9- 6* 



Smith's Catalogue, p. 212. 

 B. senilis, w. $ 



The only species met with on several visits to Shetland was B. 

 Smithianus, which was abundant at Hillswick in 1878, al- 

 though scarce in 1879. Not yet seen in Moray. 

 B. fragrans, w. 



This large and beautiful bee is one of the rarer provincial species. 

 B. lapponicus, w. $ 



Occasionally met with in the garden ; but small ponds, fringed 

 with the Menyanthes in flower, are favourite localities for it, 

 if it be a denizen in a district. 

 B. Derhamellus, w. $ 



Very abundant in June, 1885. 

 B. pratorum, w. 9 6 

 B. Scrimskiranus, w. 9 

 B. lucorum, w. 9 <$ 



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