the Apidse in the British Museum. 467 



yellow hair on the thorax and basal tergites, the apical tergites 

 being clothed with black hair : — 



1. (2) Malar space short, about as long as broad 



at the apex ; third joiut of antennae 



] I as long as joint 4 nasutus, Smith (brevi- 



2. (1) Malar space long, about twice as long as [re/js, Sui.). 



broad at apex ; third joint about 

 twice as long as joint 4. 



3. (4) Tergites 1-3 clothed with golden-yellow 



hair ; wings fusco-hyaline diversus, Smith. 



4. (3) Tergites 1 and 2 (except laterally) 



clothed with golden-yellow hair ; 



wings dark fuscous opulentus, Smith. 



Friese considers B. diversus to be a variety of B. hortorum, 

 subsp. ussurensis. Had. 



Bombus lapidariuf!, L., vav. tunicatus, Smith. 



Bomhus tnnicatus, Smith, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond. 1852 (2), ii. pt. 2, 



p. 43, pi. viii. fi-i. 7. 

 Bombus incertus, Morawitz, Bull. Acad. Sc. St. P^tei'sbourg, xxvii. 



p. 229(1881). 



Authentic examples of B. incertus, Mor., from the Eadosz- 

 kpwski Collection differ in no way from typical B. tunicatus, 

 8mith. Schmiedekiiecht (Apid. Europ. p. 371, 1883) records 

 this synonymy with a query. There seems little doubt that 

 this is only a form of b\ lapidarius, L., as recorded l)y Dalla 

 Torre in his Oatalogup, by Friese (Ann. Mus. Zool. St. 

 P^tersbourg, p. 518, 1905), and by Friese and Wagner (1910). 



Bomhus lapidarius, L., var. gilfjitensis, Ckll. 

 Bombus gilgitensis, Ckll. Ann, k Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi. p. 223 (1905). 



This species was described from Gilgit, Kashmir. Oockerell 

 notes the resemblance to B. tunicatus at the time, and later 

 (Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist. (8) v. p. 417, 1910) is inclined to 

 think it is a variety of it. I am of liis opinion, and consider 

 them both (i. e., B. tunicatus and B. giUiitensis) varieties of 

 B. hipidarius. There are recently acquired specimens from 

 Hunza, North Kashmir, 8000 ft., 3. ix. 1913 [R. W. Q. 

 Hingston) in the National Collection. 



Bomhus alienus, Smith. 

 Bombus alienug, Smith, Catal, Hym. Brit, Mus. ii. p. 402 (1854), ^ . 



There is a specimen of this insect, which was described 



