HENRY J. FRANKLIN. 157 



on the dorsal disc all dark, thus making the pile as a whole on this 

 region black instead of dark cinereous. 



Color Variant 7. — Like typical worker, but with the second, third 

 and fourth dorsal abdominal segments entirely black and the fifth seg- 

 ment also dark, except for a fringe of white hair on the basal margin 

 and on the extreme sides ; the sixth segment almost entirely dark, with 

 only a few white hairs on the extreme sides ; venter entirely dark. 

 One specimen, from Peru (Chanchamayo). 



Habitat. — The following are our valid records for this spe- 

 cies: Chiriqui (Boquete), Costa Rica (Cartago, Zarzero, 

 Volcano Irazu, Monte Redonda), Colombia (Popayan), 

 Ecuador, Peru (Chanchamayo, Callanga and Marcapata) and 

 Bolivia (Tarata). This species is most closely related to 

 rohisius. 



The pile of this species is somewhat longer and finer than 

 the average. 



A queen and worker of vogti, determined and labelled by 

 Friese, are before me, and there can be no doubt that vogti 

 belongs with volucelloides. 



Mr. J. C. Crawford has written me that the name " Bonibus 

 vohicel hides'' was omitted by mistake when page 157 of 

 volume xxxii, 1906, of the Transactions of the American 

 Entomological Society was printed. This name should have 

 appeared at the beginning of the third line from the bottom 

 of the page. 



Boinbiis (Bonil)ias) funebris F. Sm. 



Bonibus funebris Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., II, 1854, p. 400, n. 



60, 9. 

 ? " sp., Whymper, Trav. Among Great Andes Equat., 1892, p. 

 356. 

 funebris Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X, 1896, p. 521. 



Crawford and Swenk, Can. Ent., XXXV, 1903, p. 

 268. 

 " " Cameron, Trans. Araer. Ent. Soc, XXIX, 1903, p. 



237. 



Type. — Col. C. T. Bingham succeeded in definitely locating 

 the specimen, from which Smith described the queen of this 

 species, in the collection of the British Museum. It was 

 collected in Ecuador (Quito). The worker and male are 

 here described for the first time — from two cotypes of the 



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