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Bombiis (Boml)us) incarum new species. 

 ? Apis cajennensis Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst., 1798, p. 273, n. 13-14. 

 ? Botnbus cajennensis Fabricius, Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 345, n. 13. 



Illiger, Magaz. f. Insectenk., V, 1806, p. 172. 

 Bremus " Jurine, Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym., 1807, p. 259, 



9. 

 Bombus " Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Insect. Hymen., I, 1836, 



p. 471, n. 20, 9 a cf . 

 Spinola, Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino (2), XIII, 1853, 



p. 92, n. 73. 

 Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., II, 1854, p. 401, 



n. 63. 

 Holmberg, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argent., VIII, 



1879, p. 160, n. 3, 9 S c?. 

 Ant. Handlirsch, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien., 



Ill, 1888, p. 240, 9 S cf— pars, var. a. 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X, 1896, p. 513 (pars). 

 Cockerell, Cat. Abej. de Mexico, 1899, p. 19 

 (Catal.). 



Types. — Described from five queen cotypes (three of these 

 from Chanchamayo, Peru, one from Callanga, Peru and one 

 from Boquete, Chiriqui), of which four are deposited in the 

 collection of the United States National Museum and one in 

 the collection of the Massachusetts Agricultural College ; 

 from sixteen workers (fourteen from Chanchamayo, Peru 

 and two from Callanga, Peru), of which fourteen are de- 

 posited in the collection of the United States National Mu- 

 seum and two in the collection of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College ; from one male, from Chanchamayo, Peru, 

 deposited in the United States National Museum. 



Pile coarse and rather short Dorsum of thorax yellozv, with black 

 band between bases of wings. Pleura mostly black. Abdomen with third 

 dorsal segment yellow, otherwise black Legs black. Wings dark. 

 Head of females black atid of males mostly dark. Malar space long. 



Queen. Head. — Rather elongate. Face entirely black. Occiput 

 sometimes entirely black and sometimes with a triangle of nearly pure 

 (not mixed with black) yellow pile, but usually dark with a faint ad- 

 mixture of yellowish hairs. Sides entirely dark. Malar space nearly 

 as long as its width at apex, nearly one-third as long as eye. Clypeus, 

 for most part, finely punctate, with scattering coarse punctures, but 

 with a considerable area on middle of front portion smooth and shin- 

 ing. Third antennal segment longer than fifth, the fifth longer than 

 the fourth. 



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