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var. marginata (Kirby) (V. marginata Kirby; V. alhida 

 Sladen) . 



Katmai, 4 9 , June 10, 1919. Savonoski, 1 9,5^, and 3 cf , 

 Aug. 8, 1919. 



In North America, this variety is known only from Alaska 

 and the Yukon Territory, where it is apparently common. It 

 has been recorded from Kukak Bay (Ashmead) and from 

 Nome and Teller (Sladen). There are specimens from Alaska 

 in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and I have seen a y 

 taken at Kutlik (62° 30' N., 63° W.). 



Sladen (1919) has fully described this form, which he recog- 

 nizes as a distinct species. I follow, howevir, R. du Bm^sson 

 [Ann. Soc. Ent. France, LXXIII, (1904) 1905, p. 599] in regard- 

 ing this as a mere variety of V. nonvegica, from which it differs 

 merely in the creamy white color of the body markings. Fre- 

 quently, but not always, there are ferruginous red spots on the 

 anterior edges of the second tergite in the male and worker. 

 I find no trace of red on any of the five queens examiined. The 

 six workers seen all have the red spots, though in one example it 

 is very small; of the three males, two have no red. 



Two of the workers from. Savonoski (with distinct creamy 

 white fascice and lateral red spots on the second tergite) were 

 taken from the same nest with a queen of typical norwegica. 



3. Vespa (Vespula) occidentalis Cresson. 

 Seattle, Wash., 1 9, May 25, 1919. 



4. Vespa (Vespula) vulgaris Linnaeus. 

 Savonoski, 1 y , August 8, 1919. 



This worker has the scape of the antenna entirely black, 

 a broad black longitudinal stripe on the clypeus, a median 

 black spot on the yellow posterior orbits, and no yellow spots on 

 the propodeum. I have seen several similarly colored workers 

 from California and British Columbia. They agree well in col- 

 oration with European specimens of Vespa vulgaris and I have 

 provisionally referred them to that species. They could, how- 

 ever, be aberrant specim-cns of V. occidentalis, though numerous 

 workers of the latter species, which I have examined, all have 

 the antennal scape yellow in front, the clypeus yellow with one 

 or three black dots or small spots, the posterior orbits entirely 

 yellow, and two yellow spots on the propodeum. The occurrence 

 ■of true V. vulgaris on the northwestern coast of Ameiica would 



