HENRY J. FRANKLIN. 295 



Bombus (Bonibus) kiucaldii Cockerell. 

 Botnbus kincaidii Cockerell, Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, II, 



1898, p. 324, 9 cf . 

 ? " gelidus Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., IV, 1902, p. 127. 

 Psithyrus kodiakensis Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., IV, 1902, 



p. 130, c?'. 

 Bombus kincaidii Viereck, Ent. News, XIV, February, 1903, p. 54, 



9 c?. 

 ? " gelidus Ashmead, Hym. of Alaska, 1904, p. 133. 

 Psithyrus kodiakensis A.shraea,6., Hym. of Alaska, 1904, p. 136, cf. 



Types. — A queen and male are in the collection of the 

 American Entomological Society and a worker is in the col- 

 lection of the United States National Museum. The follow- 

 ing description is from those specimens : 



Pile long and rather fine. Fetnales with head black ; dorsum of thorax 

 pale yellow, except for a broad black interalar band ; pleura heavily 

 shaded with dark hairs ; dorsum, of abdomen with the two basal seg- 

 ments densely yellow, third segm.ent tnostly yellow but less densely so 

 than the first two; the remaining segments black; venter black; legs 

 dark; wings light. Male with a tuft of yellow on the face ; occiput with 

 a sprinkling of yellow hairs; cheeks mostly dark; dorsum, of thorax 

 colored as in the females, but with a less definite black interalar band ; 

 pleura rather strongly shaded ; dorsum of abdomen with the first two 

 segments yellow, the rem.ainder more or less shaded with black hairs 

 and with som.e ferruginous pile on the two apical segments. Malar space 

 long. 



Queen. Head. — Entirely dark. Malar space about one-half longer 

 than wide at apex ; about one-third the length of the eye. Clypeus 

 strongly punctate. Third antennal segment a little longer than the 

 fifth. 



Thorax. — Anterior part of dorsum and scutellum very light yellow ; 

 a broad oval black band between the bases of the wings, with its poste- 

 rior border nearly straight. Pleura heavily shaded, the yellow pile 

 for the most part stopping short near the bases of the wings, but yet, 

 the upper parts of the pleura with a considerable sprinkling of yellow 

 hairs (when viewed with a lens). 



Abdomeh. — Dorsum : segments one and two entirely and densely 

 covered with yellow pile ; segment three also covered with yellow pile, 

 but much less densely so, the black of the integument showing through 

 rather plainly and some black hairs admixed ; the remaining segments 

 black. Venter black. Hypopygium without a median carina. 



Wings. — The fore pair with outer portions hyaline, the basal por- 

 tions being considerably stained with brown ; the hind pair hyaline 

 throughout, except the veins. 



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