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restris the abdomen is black, with a yellow band, and the two last anal 

 segments are white ; there are no yellow hairs on the metathorax, and the 

 wings are much clearer. 



380. Bombus Derh"amellus Kirby. — Length of body 8 lines. Taken 

 with the preceding. 



°_ . Body hairy, black. Head with a tuft of yellowish hairs on the 

 vertex ; thorax yellow, black between the wings ; wings more embrowned 

 than in the male ; abdomen yellow at the base with a black posterior 

 band ; anus ferruginous. 



[274.] 381. Bombus praticola Kirby. — Length of body 7 lines. 

 Taken with the preceding. 



$ . Body black, clothed above with yellowish hairs. Head with a 

 tuft of yellowish hairs below the antennas, and on the vertex ; thorax 

 black between the wings, which are embrowned ; legs with yellow hairs at 

 the base ; anterior half of the abdomen yellow, posterior ferruginous. 



382. Bombus virginicus Linn.— Length of body 8}4 lines. Locality 

 uncertain. 



°_ . Hairs of the body in general black, except a tuft on the vertex 

 behind the antennae, the anterior and posterior extremities, and sides of 

 the thorax, and the first segment of the abdomen, which are clothed with 

 yellowish hairs ; between the wings the thorax is black ; the tarsi are 

 rufous ; the wings are rather embrowned, most so at the apex ; nervures 

 black. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 

 FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The Annual Meeting of the above Club will be held in St. Louis, 

 Mo., on Tuesday, August 20th, the day preceding the meeting of the 

 Association. It is hoped that all Entomologists who can possibly do so 

 will be present on that occasion. 



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