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alike in coloration. Mr. "Waterhoiise very kindly came to my assist- 

 ance, and offered to extract the armature of the type specimen ; this 

 done, Gullumanus revealed itself at once as abundantly distinct from 

 any other British species, quite justifying Thomson's and Smith's 

 views of its validity. On consulting Handlirsch's Hummel-Studien 

 (Ann. des K. K. ISTaturh. Hofmuseums, vol. vi, p. 451 [1891]), I tind 

 a good figure of the armature closely resembling the figure accom- 

 panying this, which has been carefully prepared from the type specimen 

 under the supervision of Mr. Waterhouse. 



Gullumanus may be distinguished from pratorum, its nearest ally, 

 by the following characters : — 



(? . Abdomen formed more as in lapidarius, i.e., rather more parallel-sided than in 

 pratorum, the pubescence shorter and denser, the difference between the species in 

 this respect being much the same as between hortorum and 

 Latreillellus or agrorum and venustus, the pale hairs are of a 

 less brilliant yellow, the 5th joint of the antennae is much 

 longer than the 4th, and three-quarters as long as the 3rd and 

 4th together, and the basal joints of the flagellum are slightly 

 arcuate ; for the shape of the armature, see figure. 



? . Very like that sex of pratorum, but with the face 

 squarer, i. e., with the outer margins of tlie cheeks between 

 the eyes and mandibles more parallel to each other, and the 

 abdominal black band confined to the 3rd segment ; I have 

 not seen a worker. From the red-tailed variety of soroensis 

 (which has not occurred in Britain), the ? may be known by 

 the longer 3rd joint of the antennae, which is nearly as long as 

 the two following together. 



The only recorded localities are Southend, Brighton Downs, 

 Bristol, and Suffolk. 



BoMBUS NIVALIS, Smith, nee Dahlb. 

 The species described by Smith under this name is clearly only a 

 variety of Scrimshiranus. The Eev. F. D. Morice caught a good series 

 of specimens last September {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd ser., vol. v, 

 p. 259), and, although differing from normal Scrimshiranus in the 

 black haired tibise, and the yellowish, not white, haired apex of the 

 abdomen, they are structurally, so far as I can see, identical with that 

 species, and the armature of the ^ also entirely bears out their 

 identity. Nivalis must, therefore, disappear from our list as a species. 

 The true nivalis, Dahlb., is a very large species, equalling hortorum, &c., 

 in size. 



27, Granville Park, Lewisham : 

 January 4<A, 1895. 



