124 ASHMEAD 



I cannot agree with Herr Handlirsch, of the Hofmuseum, Vienna, 

 Austria, who has reduced this species to a variety of B. terricola 

 Kirby, with which it is not even closely allied. 



BOMBUS CALIFORNICQS Smith. 



Bomhus californicus Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., ii, p. 400, $cf, 1854. — 

 Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 11, p. 97, cJ*^ ?, 1863. — Cresson, Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc, vri, p. 230, 1879. — Cresson, Syn. Hym. North America, 

 p. 307, 1887. — Handlirsch, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, in, p. 243, 1888. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, p. 513, 1896. 



Bojnbus vosnesenski Radoszkowski, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xxxv, p. 589, 

 T. 6, f. 2, 1863. 



Bot7ibus flavifrons Smith, Lord's Naturalist in Vane. Isl. , 11, p. 34, 1866. 



Bombus cobimbicus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym. Wien. Ent. Zeitg., ix, p. 139, 

 1890. 



Type in British Museum. From Sitka {teste Handlirsch). 



BOMBUS NEVADENSIS Cresson. 



Bombtts pennsylvanicus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., 11, p. 94, (^ {nee De 



Geer), 1863. 

 Bombus nevadensis Ck'ESSO^, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, v, p. 102, $(j^ 1874. — 



Cresson, Rep, Geogr. & Geol. Surv. looth merid., v, p. 728, PI. 34, f. 



5, 1875. — Cresson, Syn. Hym. North Am., p. 308, 1887. — Handlirsch, 



Ann. Hofmus. Wien, in, p. 245, T. 10, f. 3, 11, 1888. — Dalla Torre, 



Cat. Hym., x, p. 538, 1896. 



Type in collection of the American Entomological Society. From 

 Alaska (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey), Nevada, Utah, Colorado. 



BOMBUS PROXIMUS Cresson. 

 Bombus proxhnus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., 11, p. 98, ^, 1863. 

 Bombus howardii vzx. proxttmts Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vil, p. 231, 



1879. — Cresson, Syn. Hym. North Am., p. 308, 1887. 

 Bombtis terricola var. proximus Handlirsch, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, in, p. 



234, 1888. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, p, 559, 1896. 



Type in collection of the American Entomological Society. From 

 Alaska (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). 



BOMBUS NEGLECTULUS sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 17 mm. Black and clothed with a black pubes- 

 cence, except as follows : The anterior portion of the thorax above, 

 and a small spot just in front of the tegulae are clothed with a pale 

 yellowish pubescence ; the scutellum has two tufts of yellowish pubes- 

 cence but mixed with black hairs on their inner margins, while the 

 third dorsal abdominal segment at apex and laterally.^ and the fourth 

 entirely are clothed with a fulvo-rufous pubescence. 



