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along sides of area of metathorax ; there may also be a light 

 triangular mark on each side of metathorax, nearly hidden 

 by hair; area of metathorax irregularly longitudinally 

 wrinkled. Legs very light yellow, anterior femora with 

 nearly the basal two-thirds dark behind, and small dark 

 marks at bases of the other femora ; claws bifid ; teguke 

 pellucid, with a light yellow spot. Wings hyaline, a little 

 dusky, stigma and nervures pale brown; stigma small; 

 marginal cell rather obtusely pointed than truncate; second 

 s.m. about as long as first, receiving first r. n. a considerable 

 distance from base. All the abdominal segments with very 

 broad pale yellow bands, nearly covering the surface ; basad 

 of the bands the segments are black, but the apical margins 

 are subtranslucent testaceous; apical plate ferruginous, sub- 

 truncate, with rounded edges ; venter pale yellow. 



Hab. S.W. Persia (Esccdera) ; 2 $ . British Museum. 



Apparently nearest to C. handlirschi, Friese, from Algeria, 

 but easily separated by the colour of the metathorax. 



Bombus longiceps, Smith. 



A worker from Baltistan agrees with Smith's description. 

 It is a very pretty insect, the thoracic hair bright canary- 

 yellow and that at the end of the abdomen very bright red. 

 Friese and Wagner (1909) make this a variety of B.hor- 

 torum, but remark that they have no specimens. The malar 

 space in the specimen before me is only about as broad as 

 long, suggesting a doubt whether it is genuine longiceps (it 

 certainly is distinct from hortorum) ; but since the striking 

 coloration agrees with Smith's account, and I do not know 

 whether "head elongate" is to be interpreted as meaning 

 excessively so, I cannot venture to regard it as a new species. 



Thrinchostoma lemurice, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length about 15 mm. ; thorax and abdomen about 12 ; 

 anterior wing not quite 11. 



General structure as in T. renitanely, Saussure, but con- 

 siderably larger, with very dusky (brownish-grey) wings. 

 Head and thorax black, the abundant hair dull fulvous; eyes 

 very prominent ; clypeus greatly produced, as usual, with its 

 apical margin broadly pallid, testaceous shading into rufous; 

 antenna} black, the flagellum obscurely dull ferruginous 

 beneath ; outer side of flagellum with very numerous con- 

 spicuous elongate pits ; mesothorax closely punctured ; area 

 of metathorax closely longitudinally wrinkled, the ruga? 



