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lection of the U. S. National Museum. The $ type is not 

 in good condition, the pile of the abdomen being matted. 



Were I to follow Robertson and recognize the genus Bom- 

 bias, I should include this species under that genus. For 

 certain reasons, which I hope to give in full in a later paper, 

 however, it seems to me that Bombias should not be given 

 more than subgeneric rank, though its standing as a good 

 subgenus cannot be questioned. 



Bombus handlirschi Friese. Friese's original description of 

 the worker of this species, translated freely from the Latin, 

 is as follows : 







". Black, for the most part fulvous or ferruginous hairy; head 

 short; head and thorax above cinereous sides ferruginous hairy; seg- 

 ment i, ferruginous; 2 and 3, fuscous or fuliginous 4-6, ferrugin- 

 ous hairy; wings fuliginous. Length, 13-15 mm." 



To aid students of the group in determining this species, 

 I append to this description the following: 



Ocelli near the supra-orbital line, above the narrowest part of the 

 front. Clypeus smooth and shining, rather delicately punctate. Malar 

 space distinctly longer than it is wide at the apex, a little more than one- 

 fourth the length of the eye. Third antennal segment somewhat 

 longer than fifth ; fifth distinctly longer than fourth. Hypopygium with- 

 out median carina. Head with face, occiput and sides behind the eyes, 

 as well as the entire dorsum of the thorax, including the metanotum, 

 bearing dark ashen gray pile. Pleura from about the level of the 

 tegulas to the bases of the legs covered with rather light rusty brown 

 pile. Abdomen above with segments one, four, five and six, covered 

 with pile of about the same color as that covering the pleura ; seg- 

 ments two and three, except the very side margins, covered with dark 

 fuliginous pile. Abdomen below rather scantily clothed with light 

 rusty brown pile, as are also the side margins of the second and third 

 dorsal segment. Pile on the leg (except on the anterior tibiae in front 

 and on their inner sides, where it is fuliginous), including the cor- 

 bicular fringes, all of the same color as that on the pleura and on the 

 venter of the abdomen. Wings strongly infuscate. 



Described from three specimens (workers) from Peru, re- 

 ceived from Staudinger; in the collection of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



Bombus parvulus Fabr. It is doubtful if this species be- 

 longs to the Bombinae. Is the type in existence? 



