BOMBUS. 549 



clypeus bare, finely punctured ; the space between the eyes and 

 base of maudibles highly polished, impunctate, shining. Blacii, 

 covered with ot-hraceous wliite pubescence; a broad transverse 

 band between the tegulte with dense, and the base of abdominal 

 segments 3-5 with bands of thin, black pubescence; the apical 

 segment with a tliin covering of black hairs above ; the pubescence 

 on the head and face sprinkled plentifully with black hairs, and 

 the greater part of the legs covered with short black, the inside of 

 the posterior tarsi with ferruginous pubescence ; wings hyaline, 

 broadly fuscescent along their apical margins. 



Hah. Kuuavvar District, Northern India. $ . Length 22 ; exp. 

 46 mm. ^ and (S unknown.* 



963. Bombns tunicatus. (PI. IV, fig. 10.) 



iSmith, Trans. Ent. Soc. u. s. ii, 18^52, p. 43, pi. viii, fig. 7 ; Dall. 

 Torr. Cat. x, p. 560. 



2 . Head and face not particularly long ; clypeus, che(^ks, 

 vertex, and space between the orbits of the eyes beneath and the 

 base of the mandibles bare, shining, punctured ; the front above 

 the clypeus, the thorax, and abdomen densely 

 pubescent ; apical abdominal segment bare 

 above, punctured, not carinate. Black ; the 

 head, a transverse broad fascia between the 

 wings, the legs, and the 3rd abdominal seg- 

 ment covered with black, thorax anteriorly 

 and posteriorly and the basal two abdominal 

 segments with hoary white, and the apical 

 three abdominal segments with bright orange- 

 *"ig. 184. Bombus ^,^^ pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline, darker 



towards tlie costal margm. 

 J similar, smaller ; the head entirely covered with thin (not 

 dense) rather long fuscous pubescence ; the transverse fascia 

 on the mesouotum between the wings narrower: wings somewhat 

 paler. 



^ resembles the $ , much smaller; the 2nd, sometimes also 1st, 

 abdominal segment with dull orange-red pubescence. 



Hab. China ; Kumaun ; Mussooree (Eothney). $ . Lenr/th 20-22 ; 

 e.vp. 43-45 mm. $. Length 13-15; exp. 27-29 mm. J. Length 

 17 ; exj). 36 mm. 



964. Bombus eximius, Sjnith, Trans. Ent. Soc. u. s. ii, 18.52, p. 47, $ , 



pi. viii, lig. 5 ; Ball. Torr. Cat. x, p. 510. 



2 . Head and face not particularly elongate ; the clypeus convex ; 

 vertex of head, the cheeks, space between the orbits of the eyes 

 beneath and the base of the mandibles, and the clypeus smooth 



* B. BELL1C08U8, Smith, New Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 131, stated to be from 

 " Sumatra or India," is without doubt American, and identical with B. tJioracicUS, 

 Sich. (nee Spin.)- Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 18G2, p. 121. 



