So Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. VIII , 



S. India : — Trivandrum, Feb., 1893. 

 Malay Peninsula : — Johore. 



Represented in the Pusa collection from Bengal : — Buxa 

 Duars. 



14. Bombus orientalis, Smith. 



Cat. ii, p. 402, 5 . Bombus huccinatoris , Sm., New Sp. Hym. 

 Ins. B.M., p. 132, 9 . ? Bombus simulus, Grib., Bull Ent. 

 Soc. Ital., xxiii, 1891, p. 114, 2 . Bombus orientalis, Bing- 

 ham, Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, p. 555, pi. iv, fig. 9; 

 Paiva, Rec. Ind. Mus, , i, 1907, p. 17. 



Two specimens from Rotung, 1,400 ft., 26 — 27-xii-ii, one 

 from near Renging, 1,500 ft., 19-xii-ii, and one from Sirpo, c<3;. 

 1,300 ft., March, 1912 {Kemp). 



The specimens vary very much in size, the smallest is 12 mm., 

 the next 15 mm. and the largest 26 mm. in length. 



Recorded by Bingham from Sikhim, Kunawar. " One of 

 the commonest species about Darjiling " (Bingham). 



Represented in the Indian Museum collection from Nepal : — 

 Katmandu, Nepal Valley, 4,500 ft., Oct., 1906 ; vSoondrijal, Nepal 

 Valley; Chitlong, little Nepal Valley; Chandragiri, ca. 8,000 ft., 

 Oct., 1906 {R. Hodgart). 



E. Himalayas: — Sikhim; Kurseong, 4,700 — 5,000 ft., 22, 24, 

 25-vi-io, 5, 7, 9-ix-09 {Annandale) ; 6,000 ft., 13-X-09 (D'Abreau); 

 Gumti, Darjiling district, ca. 4,000 ft., vii-ii (Gravely). 



Assam : — Cheera Punji, Khasi Hills (Warren). 



W. Himalayas : — Kanaul, British Garhwal, 18-X-07 (Mus. 

 collr.). 



Represented in the Pusa collection from E. Himalayas :— 

 Phoobsering, Eebong, Darjiling district. 



It might be useful to note that each of the species Bombus 

 orientalis and B. haemorrhoidalis , which to the casual observer 

 would appear alike, has its range of distribution quite distinct. 

 B. orientalis, though recorded so far west as Kanaul in British 

 Garhwal, is not met with in any of the western ranges of 

 the Himalayas. It is found as far west as the western borders of 

 Nepal and probably in some of the Kumaon Hills, where the 

 two species may meet. B. haemorrhoidalis though described from 

 Chusan in the hills of North China, has not yet been found in 

 any Indian locality to the east of the Kumaon Hills. I found 

 it in fairly large numbers in Almora, visiting roses. 



15. Apis dorsata, Fab. 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst, ii, p. 328; Syst. Piez., 370 ; Smith, Cat., 

 ii, p. 415; Journ Linn. Soc, xi, 1876, p. 396 ; Home, Trans. 

 Zool.Soc. l/ond., vii, p. 181, pi. 22, fig. 3; Iyep.,Hym., i, 

 p. 405, $ . Apis testacea, Sm., Journ. Linn. Soc, ii, 1858, 

 p. 49. Apis zonata, Sm. (nee Guer,), Journ. Linn. Soc, iii, 

 1859, p. 8. Apis dor sata, Bingham., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



