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the high ground beyond Coomb Wood ; on Parley Downs ; 

 and on the 3rd of July, 1864, I took it rather plentifully on 

 Shirley Common ; but I have only found females. Some 

 years ago the collector, J. Foxcroft, found a nest, containing 

 all the sexes, at Loch Kannoch, in Perthshire ; the nest was 

 under a stone and composed of moss. The Apis Jonella has 

 proved a difficulty to Entomologists, the description being 

 incomplete : this was rectified by Mr. Kirby in his own 

 interleaved copy of the vi^ork which was obligingly lent to me 

 by his nephew ; to the description in the work was, in manu- 

 script, " Fades ante antennas pallide villosus :" this at once 

 completes the description of the male of Bombus Scrim- 

 shiranus. 



13. Bombus Soroensis, Illig. Mag. v. 167; Fahr. Syst. 



Piez. p. 345, female ; Dahlb. Bomb. Scancl. 43 ; 



Drews. 8f Schibdte, Bomb. Denm. ii. 112 j Nylaiid. 



Ap. B&real. 239. 

 Apis neulra, Paiiz. Faun. Germ. 83, 18, neuter. 

 Bombus neutra, Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 347 ; St. Farg. 



Hym. i. 469. 

 Bremus Sylvarum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 85, 19 {nee 



Linn.) 

 Bombus collinus, Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 223. 

 This must be one of the most local species of the genus : 

 in August, 1854, I took the insect at Southend, since which I 

 have not met with it ; the Rev. Mr. Rudd took it at Yarm, 

 in Yorkshire, and Mr. Heysham took the male in abundance 

 near Carlisle ; Mr. Walcott has specimens from the Brighton 

 Downs, and has also taken it in the vicinity of Bristol ; but 

 I have only seen one or two British examples of the female. 

 The dark variety of Bombus subterraneus has been mistaken 

 for this species by many hymenoplerists : such was my own 

 opinion until M. Drewsen sent me the true species from 

 Copenhagen, where the typical specimen of Fabricius is to 

 be found in the Museum : it is much smaller than " subter- 

 raneus," not quite so large as B. Hortorum : the female is 

 about eight lines long, is black, with apical portion of the 

 abdomen white ; the two colours are divided by a rosy band. 

 In 1856 a female of this species was taken by Mr. Geo. 

 Edwards at Hampstead. 



