Descriptions and Records of Bees. 355 



XXXVII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXXXVII. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 



Bombus prshewalskii, Morawitz. 



Males from Gulmarg, Kashmir, 8500 ft., Sept. 17 (Dutt). 

 I have compared them with a worker from China (North 

 Ganj-su), received from Skorikov, and am satisfied that 

 they belong to the same species. B. tetrachromus, Ckll., 

 from Baltistan, has the same remarkable colours (the 

 abdominal bands white, yellow, red, and then white again, 

 the yellow a bright canary-colour), but the malar space is 

 shorter. 



Friese (1918) records B. prsheivalskii (using the spelling 

 przewalskii) from Sikkim, Tibet, and Assam. 



Dianthidium meliponiforme, sp. u. 



? . — Length about 9 mm. 



Black, robust, with the following parts chestnut-red : 

 clypeus, mandibles (except cutting-edge), broad band along 

 each inner orbit, elongate mark below middle ocellus, obscure 

 band on cheeks, antennae (flagellum dusky above), lateral 

 margins and lateral thirds of anterior margin of rnesothorax, 

 tubercles and much of prothorax, axillae, very broad apical 

 band on scutellum, tegulae, anterior tibiae in front, and 

 lower side of anterior femora ; the abdomen has the hind 

 portions of the first five segments broadly and suffusedly 

 dark coppery reddish, but is without any distinct markings. 

 Clypeus finely punctured ; front densely and coarsely 

 punctured ; mesothorax very coarsely and densely punctured, 

 except in the vicinity of the depressed middle line or sulcus, 

 where the punctures are sparse, exposing the dullish surface ; 

 scutellum extending backward with a sharp edge, strongly 

 emarginate in middle ; metathorax rugulose and glistening ; 

 hair of head and thorax scanty, black. Wings suffused 

 with reddish orange except apically ; stigma (which is large) 

 and nervures bright ferruginous ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; second 

 r. n. going far beyond end of second s.m. Legs with black 

 hair, very abundant on hind tibiae and tarsi ; spurs black ; 

 first two abdominal segments shining and finely punctured, 

 the others less distinctly punctured, the sixth black, rather 

 sparsely punctured, and concave in lateral profile ; sides of 

 third and fourth abdominal segments with black hair, but 

 fifth and anterior half of sixth with conspicuous pure white 



