APIDJE. 365 



B. Smithianus, While (nrdir.us, Dnhlb. nee Kirh.). — 

 Head clothed with black hairs, face in the ^ with a little 

 pale pubescence below the anteana9, cheeks about as long 

 as their apical width, antennae in the (J with the joints 

 slic^htly rounded in front, the third considerably lonj^er than 

 the fourth ; thorax clothed above with bright fulvous hairs, 

 which are of a richer, darker colour than those of any of 

 our other species, at the sides and beneath with black or 

 rarely with pale; wings smoky brown; abdomen clothed 

 with lemon-yellow hairs of a much duller colour than those 

 on the thorax, those at its base rather darker and browner, 

 apical segment in both sexes clothed with black hairs, 

 beneath clothed with black or rarely with pale hairs, the 

 intermediate segments in the c?, especially at the sides, 

 with pale, armature in the c? with the inner margin of the 

 lacinia semicircularly emarginate, with a sharp spine-like 

 tooth at the base of the emargination, between the teeth 

 densely fringed with hairs beneath, between the basal 

 tooth and the apex of the stipes is a flat, somewhat 

 triangular tooth-like process, sharply pointed at its apical 

 angle, sagittiB hamate beneath at the apex, and angulated 

 beneath before the middle. 



L. 15-20 mm. 



Shetland ; Orkney, (Morice) ; and Hebrides. Single 

 examples have also been recorded from Dover and Scilly. 



I cannot think that Schmiedeknecht is right in referring 

 this species to alpinus, Linn., of the S of which he says 

 " tibiffl posticse . . . cum tarsis longe f ulvo pilose." In 

 Smithianus they are clothed with short black hairs — by the 

 form of the S armature it more closely resembles the 

 species called cognatus by the Continental authors, but the 

 figure in Schmiedeknecht's " Apidte Europje," and that 

 in Hoffer's " Hummeln Steiermarks," both represent the 

 lacinia as so much longer than it is in our species that I 

 doubt if they can be identical. The Rev. F. D. Morice 

 took this species abundantly in Shetland last September 



