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with smaller ones on the lateral, dorsal and anterior portions. Malar space 

 slightly shorter than its width at articulation of mandibles, about two-thirds 

 the greatest width of and one-fourth the length of the eye. Ocelli situated 

 slightly above the narrowest part of the vertex; lateral ocelli almost as far 

 distant from each other as from inner margin of eye; area between lateral 

 ocelli and eyes polished, impunctate except for a very few small punctures 

 near inner margin of eye. Flagellum about twice as long as the scape; third 

 antennal segment somewhat longer than the fifth, the fifth slightly longer 

 than the fourth. 



Entire dorsum and pleura of thorax, except for the small polished and 

 impunctate disk, covered with moderately long tawny-yellow pile. 



Abdomen with the first dorsal segment yellow, the pile being short and 

 sparse on the middle portion; second dorsal segment with dull ferruginous 

 pile on the sides and yellow in the middle; third, fourth and fifth dorsal 

 segments with dull ferruginous pile; sixth dorsal segment with short brownish- 

 black pile. Venter with golden and browTi pile fringing posterior margins of 

 the segments. Hy popygium w ithout a median carina. 



Legs black, but with the pile on the ventral surfaces of the femora and a 

 portion of the tibiae dull golden or ferruginous. Corbicular fringes both on 

 the dorsal and ventral margins bright ferruginous. Hind metatarsi distinctly 

 arcuate. 



Wings pale brown, the nervurcs distinctly outlined in darker brown. 



Length, 20 mm.; spread of wings, 39 mm.; width of abdomen at second 

 segment, 10 mm. 



Holotype. — queen, Kina Balu, British North Borneo. 



The holotype, No. 10542, is in the collection of the Acadenn^ 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Bremus folsomi is the first species of l)uni])lel)ee to he found in 

 Borneo. The discovery of a species of this genus at Kina Balu, 

 however, is not surprising as bumblebees are known from Java, 

 Sumatra and the Philippine Islands (Luzon, Mindanao and 

 Negros). 



I name this species for my friend Dr. J. W. I'\)lsom, who first 

 interested me in the study of the bumbk^bees and has assisted 

 me in many ways. 



E. New Distributional Records 



The following new <listril)ut ioual records, uidess otherwise 

 noted, are based upon specimens contained in the collections of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia antl the 

 American Entomological Society. 



1. Bremus terricola (Kirl)y). Monlana, one queen. Not 

 previously recorded from the United States west of North 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



