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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Feb., '03 



looked back up the valley our former camp was white with 

 snow. A roaring campfire soon made all within its reach a 

 scene of comfort, and when Old Sol came over the mountains 

 and peeped into our valley, cold, damp, discomfort, restless- 

 ness and snow disappeared at his magic touch. That, how- 

 ever, is another storj^ and another day. 



Bombus Gelidus Cress, Bombus Kincaidii Ckll. 



BY H. L,. VIERECK. 



By request of Prof. Cockerell, I have compared the types of 

 the above and a $ gclidus determined by Prof. Cockerell. 

 Believing them to be distinct, I submit the following tabular 

 arrangement of the different characters : 



kincaidii. 



? 



Flagellum thicker, first joint one- 

 fourth its length longer than the 

 second. 



Pale, pubescence absent on ver- 

 tex. 



Segments 1-2-3 of abdomen en- 

 tirely covered with pale pubesence, 

 the hair on the remaining segments 

 almost black. 



C? 

 Flagellum thicker, first joint a 



little longer than the second, but 

 not distinctly. Abdomen almost en- 

 tirely covered with pale hairs, some 

 black hairs mixed with the pale 

 ones on the apical half. 



gelidus. 



9 



Flagellum more slender, first 

 joint one-third its length longer 

 than the second. 



Pale pubescence present on ver- 

 tex. 



First abdominal segment with 

 pale pubescence, second and third 

 segments each with two patches of 

 brown pubescence, which almost 

 form a transverse band, some black 

 hairs to the sides and the front of 

 these patches, fourth segment with 

 pale hair, interrupted in the middle 

 by a patch of black hairs ; apex of 

 abdomen with dark, almost black 

 hairs. 







Flagellum more slender, first 

 joint distinctly longer than the sec- 

 ond, about one-fourth its length. 

 First segment of abdomen w i t h 

 pale hairs, second and third seg- 

 ments with brownish hairs, the rest 

 of the abdomen with pale hairs 

 mixed with black, except laterally 

 where they are pale. 



