HENRY J. FRANKLIN. 167 



" Black, dorsum of abdomen red, the rest of the body black-haired. 

 Head short, malar space scarcely longer than the width of the man- 

 dibles. 



S . Third antennal segment longer than the fourth and than the 

 fifth ; apex of hind metatarsi sinuate in the middle, not spinose on the 

 angles. 



cf . Facies pauIo latior, oculis tumidulis, antennarum articulo 3 

 includentibus simul sumptis fere longiore ; tibia 3 sat concava lucida ; 

 tibiae 3 et prototarsi 3 jugo supero longe ciliato. 



Length of w irker, 12-13 mm.; wing, 11 mm. Length of male, 

 14-15 mm. ; wing, 12.5 mm." 



I have not here translated the description of the male from 

 the Latin as this description does not seem to be clear in all 

 respects. 



The queens from which the description given above was 

 made varied in length from 17 mm. to 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Argentina (Lara — 4,000 meters altitude), Boli- 

 via (Tarata) and Peru (Puno). Probably also present in 

 the northern portion of Chile. 



Cocci7ietis may be related to this species. 



Smith's bicoloratus may have come from South America 

 instead of from Asia. Apparently bicoloratus was described 

 from a specimen in a mixed collection of South American 

 and Asiatic specimens, as the description was given in a 

 paper which gave the original descriptions of species from 

 both of those continents. 



The Asiatic habitat of two {bicoloratjis 2ind. bellicostis) of the 

 seven supposedly Asiatic species of Bombiis, published by 

 Smith in " Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in 

 the Collection of the British Museum (1879)," is now ques- 

 tioned because of the striking similarity of their descriptions 

 to two strikingly and peculiarly colored South American 

 species {baeri and thoracicus). A careful examination of the 

 habitat of bicoloratus and bellicos7is, as given by Smith, leads 

 to interesting speculation. He gave the habitat " Sumatra 

 or India" for bellicosus. The fact that he did not say defi- 

 nitely either Sumatra or India shows conclusively that his 

 specimen had no locality label and that he depended either 

 upon memory or hearsay, either one an unreliable factor in 



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