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Next come in consideration the queen and drone, in which tlic colori:-:g 

 is generally simple. In the queen, the head, thorax and abdomen are brownish 

 black ; legs arc translucent, fuscous and sometimes mottled blackish. Scapus 

 of antenae is often dark brown. Scutellum is black. The anterior half of the 

 abdominal segment is shiny black ; its posterior half exposed is not shin)-, being 

 covered with finest brownish pubescence. The ventral plates of the abdomen 

 are black, each ranging posteriorly into fuscous. The drones: the hc-ad, thnra.x', 

 abdomen and legs are all black, excepting tlie surroundings of the anal opening 

 which arc brown. 



S. Pubescence of the Jappanese Bee 



The hair bush between compound eyes is not scanty in the Japanese bcc, 

 as compared, for instance, with A. mellijica. In this respect, our bee can not be 

 distinguished from the specimens from Corea (Seoul and Köryo), Manchuria 

 (Chiko-shan), Peking and Hankau, which agree again in resembling each other. 

 This fact dispro\es tie .statement by v. Buttel-Reepen (1906), which runs 

 as follows, "Das Fehlen des Stirnhaarschopfes und spärlichere Behaarung sowie 

 die hellere Abdomen-Unterseite (in the Japanese bee) unterscheiden sie v^on der 

 Sinensis." About the color the blackishness of the ventral p[ates of the abdomen 

 can not be accepted, as we have already dealt with in the preceding paragraph ; 

 what tl'.e hair-tuft is concerned, I do not hesitate to assume that it is lost or 

 diminished owing to some artificial causes. 



The second lot of hairs arc represented by the hair bands of the abdomen, 

 which are of constant occurence and merit according!}- the valualile .species 

 criterion. According to the previous authors the.se hair bands are present in 

 the varieties, such as pcroni, picea, sinensis and j'aponiea only three in number, 

 occuring on respective segmen's from the 3rd to 5th. \ ha\e detected one 

 more band on the 6th segment of the Japanese bee ib, Fig. i); this band may 

 probably be overlooked in shrinked specimens, because it 'is found on the 

 hindmost segment of the body wiiich is often concealed, in such spesimens. 

 Nevesthiess, it is an important characteri.stic not onh' of the Japanese bee, but 

 also of the bees from Corea and China, in which I have proved this, while 

 vtcUifica is destitute of it. This result suggests further that all other \ a.-icties 



