408 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



from North China, in the British Museum from Shillong, 

 Assam, x. 1903 (/?. E. Turtier). The species is omitted 

 from the ' Fauna of British India/ vol. i. (1897). Smith's 

 original description is sufficiently good for colour ; the malar 

 space is rather longer than broad at apex, the third antennal 

 joint is rather larger than the fourth. 



This is probably the same species as B. vaUestrh, Smith 

 (1878), described from the Second Yarkand Expedition ; but 

 1 have not seen the type.' 



Bomhus longicepSy Smith. 



See Cockerell (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v. p. 505, 1910) 

 on this species. I agree with him that the Baltistan specimen 

 cannot possibly be a form of B. hortorum. Unfortunately 

 the type is not available, being in the same collection as the 

 previous species. The British Museum has recently received 

 six 5 ^ from Hunza, North Kashmir, viii. 1913 [R. W. G, 

 Hingston). 



Bomhus hicoloratus, Smith (1879). 



Ciockerell (' Entomologist,' p. 101, 1911) has written a 

 note on this Formosan species and the nearly related B. latis- 

 simus, Friese (1910), in which he gives both structural and 

 colour differences. 



Bomhus ardernt, Smith (1879). 



This Japanese species is known only from males. The 

 malar space is of medium length, rather longer than broad at 

 apex ; joints 3 and 4 of tiie antennae are about equal. This 

 may prove to be the male ot B. muscorum, var. tersatuSj 

 Smith, also from Japan. 



From a perusal of Dr. Franklin's valuable " Monograph of 

 American Bomhus'' (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1913), it would 

 appear that the majority of the types of species of that genus 

 considered to be in the British Museum are not there. The 

 explanation for this is that the late Colonel Bingham was 

 unwilling to accept as the type any s{)eciniei» not actually 

 labelled with the word '" type'' by the author, with the result 

 that species described by Frederick Smith, which are certainly 

 the actual type-specimens, are stated to be untraceable. 



