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banded specimens are probably to be found in many 
places. I took one at Cobham, Surrey, in rg1rt. 
The male corresponding to the banded queen 
has a yellow band on the back as well as on the 
front of the thorax, and the Ist segment of the 
abdomen yellow. Queens banded with bright 
yellow like this male are to be found in the Pyrenees 
and in Italy. 
A number of impregnated J/apzdarius queens 
from England that I was asked to supply were 
set free near Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1906 
andiy1907, but Wr Eileendori, of the Canter- 
bury Agricultural College, informs me that up to 
November 1911 no specimens have been seen 
flying ; so the attempted introduction of this species 
into New Zealand is probably a failure. 
Bombus mastrucatus, Gerst., is an interesting 
species related to B. /apzdarzus, occurring in the 
Alps and Pyrenees at altitudes ranging from 3000 
to 7000 feet. It is very like B. Zapzdarzus in colour- 
ing, but it is slightly larger, the coat is long and 
shaggy, and the mandibles are toothed. In the 
armature the forceps are shaped much as in /@fz- 
darius, but the wands are like those of B. pratorum. 
