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of the metasternum and abdomen. The elytra are decorated with 

 inconspicuous pale 3'ello\v spots, viz., a very slight transverse one 

 at the lateral margin before the middle, a larger one behind the 

 middle, and a minute intermediate sutural one. A large round 

 yellow patch occupies the greater ])art of the surface of the 

 pygidium. 



The shape is long and narrow. The djipens is long, with the 

 anterior margin recurved and straight. The vertex is strongly 

 keeled and the pubescence of the head and thorax is longer than 

 that of the elytra. The sides of the prothorax are considerably 

 narrowed from the middle forwards and parallel behind. The 

 posterior part is depressed and the basal lobe is rather pointed but 

 not long. The ehjtra are depressed along the suture and the 

 costse are strong and smooth at their summits. The lateral 

 margins are strongly sinuated behind the shoulders. 



J . The club ot the antenna) is very long and the abdomen is 

 slightly excavated beneath. I have not seen the other sex. 



Length 18-20 mm. ; breadth 9 mm. 



BiiUTAJf ; Burma : Taung-ngu. 



I'lipe in coll. li. Oberthiir. 



IW. Macronota ursus. 



liombodcs ursus, Wefitic* Cab. of Orient. Eut. 1848, p. 36, pi. 17, 

 tig. 4. 



Black, with the legs red and the whole body, except the middle 

 of the abdomen, thickly clothed with long erect hairs of a deep 

 brown colour, except those on the legs, and a broad transverse 

 band crossing the elytra near the middle, which are tawny. The 

 hairs upon the pygidium and at the sides of the abdominal 

 .segments are sometimes also tawny. 



The form is robust and the whole aspect is extremely like that 

 of a Humble Bee. The ehipeus is not densely hairy and is slightly 

 notched at the end. The prothora.v is rather globose, not obviously 

 depressed behind and only feebly lobed. The dijtra are thickly 

 hairy, but with the longitudinal heel upon each smooth. The 

 lateral margins are strongly sinuated behind the shoulders. The 

 front and middle tlliuv are short and broad and both are very 

 strongly tridentate at their outer margins. 



(S . Tlie club of the antenna is very long, the spurs of the hind 

 tibi* are blunt, and the outer one is dilated and bent before the 

 <;xtremity. 



In the $ the outer spur is spatulate and tlie inner one is broadly 

 bifid at the tip. 



Lciujth 18-21 mm. ; breadth 9-10 mm. 



Buii.MA : liuby Mines. 



T'lpc in the Oxford Museum. 



In its form, colouring and thick hairy clothing this curious 

 species departs widely from its generic type, but the divergence 

 is superficial and obviously mimetic. It has the closest possible 

 resemblance to a Huinble Bee {Bombus eximins, Lep.) which is 



