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tion and climate of Para, Brazil, does not call for pile of that 

 color on any species of the family Bombidae. 



2. No species of Bombus at all similarly colored has ever 

 been reported from Brazil. 



3. No other really tropical species of Psithyrus has ever 

 been captured in the New World. Intrudens, sololejisis and 

 guatemalensis came, to be sure, from the tropics, but the first 

 of these species inhabits a mountainous region of Mexico 

 and the two latter live in the high mountains of Guate- 

 mala, so they must be considered Lower Austral rather than 

 Tropical forms. 



Unclassified Names and Descriptions. 

 Such names and descriptions are here brought together as 

 the writer has been unable to place with certainty, and it is 

 hoped that, if any of them can be made to apply satisfactorily, 

 some future worker on this family of insects may be helped 

 by their being collected here. 



Bombus antiguensis F. 



Apis antiguensis Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 380, n. 11. 



" Fabricius, Spec. Insect., I, 1781, p. 476, n. 12. 



" " Fabricius, Mant. Insect., I, 1787, p. 300, n. 12. 



" " Olivier, Encycl. Method. Insect., IV, 1789, p. 66, 



n. 24. 

 " " Gmelin, Linne : Syst. Nat., Ed. 13, I, 5, 1790, p. 



2784, n. 115. 

 ? " " Christ, Naturg. d. Insect., 1791, p. 126. 



" " Fabricius, Ent. Syst., II, 1793, p. 318, n. 16. 



Bombus antiguensis Fabricius, Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 346, n. 15. 



" " Illiger, Magaz. f. Insectenk., V, 1806, p. 171, n. 42. 



Bremus antiguensis Jurine, Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym., 1807, p. 260, 9 . 

 Xylocopa antiguensis Lepeletier, Encycl. Method. Insect., X, 1825, p. 



794. 

 Bombus antiguensis Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., II, 1854, p. 397, 

 n. 38. 

 Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., II, 1863, p. 107, 

 n. 40. 

 " " Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VII, 1879, p. 



230 (Catal.). 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X, 1896, p. 510. 



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